Bury Times Reporter writes: Thousands of patients in the borough can now access their health records online. They are among some of the first in the country to source health information via an online personal organiser known as HealthSpace. Available since 2003, the service (www.healthspace.nhs.uk) gives patients the opportunity to store personal health information including…
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Louisiana HIE goes live
Bernie Monegain of Healthcare IT News reports: The Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange, which includes 24 hospitals in northern Louisiana, is going live today on an integrated open systems platform that will enable teleconsultation among the hospitals. […] The integrated platform employs a federated model that offers clinicians secure access to a portal-based view of…
Patient Privacy (letter)
Jill Callahan Dennis of the American Health Information Management Association has a letter to the editor of the New York Times: “Safeguarding Private Medical Data†(editorial, March 26) makes an important point about the need for identifiable patient information to be better protected from security and confidentiality breaches. Not all organizations are subject to privacy…
How to engender a false sense of security in patients
In the story about the new Canadian health portal, mydoctor.ca, it says: […] [Larry Mohr, president of Practice Solutions] was asked how the system could guarantee patients’ health information doesn’t end up in the public domain. “The piece that people might get most nervous about would be the secure messaging where people would normally think…
Canadian Medical Association launches new online system for patients
 The Canadian Press reports: The Canadian Medical Association launched a new online pilot project Tuesday it says will help patients take a more active role in their health. “It empowers patients,” said Brian Day, the president of the Canadian Medical Association. The new online “tool” was introduced by Day at a news conference and later…
Genetic Privacy Page
The World Privacy Forum has published a new page on genetic privacy outlining basic policy issues and collecting World Privacy Forum work in the area. The page also links to key external research being done in privacy and genetics, and also links to key organizations doing work in this area in the U.S. and the…