From Kroll’s press release: Best practices in data security cannot be achieved by employee training alone. Organizations must make data security a part of their DNA, reflected in every aspect of business operations. The healthcare industry’s focus on medical privacy and compliance has fostered a lack of awareness around the frequency, cause and seriousness of…
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Your medical history is a click away
Katie Foutz has an article in the Naperville Sun that starts out by describing how helpful it can be to have electronic health records: […] While victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita relocated to places around the country, they couldn’t always remember the names or dosages of the medications their Gulf Coast doctors had prescribed….
Do People Have a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy in Abandoned DNA?
Information privacy lawyer Dan Solove has a commentary on the recent news article in the New York Times, “Lawyers Fight DNA Samples Gained on Sly,” in which he writes: […] DNA is sensitive information in many people’s books, but it is also very hard to keep contained. We leave traces of DNA everywhere we go…
NZ: GPs fear for patient privacy
Hayden Donnell of the North Shore Times reports: An online medical database has North Shore GPs worried for their patients’ privacy. They are hitting out at the system, called TestSafe, saying it could be used to put patient medical records into the wrong hands. Milford doctor John Russell says he has seen two cases where…
Sweden's e-health initiative launches
The Swedish government has launched its e-health initiative, as described on the e-Health Europe site. The national strategy is described in this 36-page report [pdf]. With respect to security, the report says: Increased use of e-Health must be combined with effective security measures designed to ensure that highly sensitive confidential information relating to individual patients…
Twila Brase on DNA Warehouse and Ownership
I’ve previously linked to an OpEd about a proposed law in Minnesota that would allow collection of every newborn’s DNA despite Minnesota’s genetic privacy law and that would give the government ownership and genetic research rights. Today I saw the following on YouTube. It’s a video of Twila Brase, president of Citizens’ Council on Health…