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Those medical tests are yours

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Dissent

Los Angeles resident Rose Cohen says all she wanted was a copy of her laboratory test results. She’d been given a routine blood panel during an annual visit to her gynecologist and wanted to show the report to her internist. The results had already been returned to her gynecologist from the lab, meaning they were…

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NHS Lothian to improve security after breaching the Data Protection Act

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Dissent

NHS employees failed to comply with data security requirements according to an Undertaking, signed by James Barbour, the Chief Executive of NHS Lothian. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found NHS Lothian in breach of the Data Protection Act after an unencrypted memory stick was lost and some paper files were temporarily left in a…

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NY High School To Provide Pregnancy, STD Testing

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Dissent

Is it providing high school students a needed service or shutting parents out of their teen’s lives? A recent decision by the Port Chester Board of Education has some thinking it’s too much intrusion. As Port Chester High School gets ready for the new school year, officials have signed off on a new service that…

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Health record haste sparks privacy fears

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Dissent

The economic stimulus law is creating privacy risks as it forces fast development of electronic health records, according to at least one privacy advocate. The Privacy and Security Workgroup of the Health and Human Services Department’s Health Information Technology Standards Committee presented its recommendations to the committee on July 21. It included a framework of…

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Panel wants privacy protection for electronic medical records

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Dissent

A federal advisory panel on patient privacy wants encryption, strong access controls and audits to protecting patients’ medical records under the program advanced by the economic stimulus law, according to the co-chair of the group. “The data will be encrypted and not set for easy access,” Steven Findlay, co-chair of the Health Information Technology Standards…

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DoD Pushes Ahead With E-Health System

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Dissent

A personal health records pilot test by the Department of Defense has been successful, and the military is now determining how to expand it more widely. The service, called MiCare, is still in pilot mode at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash. Plans call for it to be expanded to the Hampton Roads, Va.,…

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