Lisa Nightingale reports: A former heroin addict with a criminal record spanning 30 years has apologised for stealing a computer from a GPs’ surgery. David Graham walked out of Flagg Court Primary Care Centre, South Shields, with one of its computers, containing patients’ files, on November 9. The 44-year-old, a former patient at the surgery,…
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HIMSS Survey: Business Associates not up to speed on HITECH
Today, HIMSS released a new report, 2009 HIMSS Analytics Report: Evaluating HITECH’s Impact on Healthcare Privacy and Security. Commissioned by ID Experts, HIMSS surveyed senior information technology (IT) executives, Chief Security Officers, Chief Medical Information Officers (CMIOs), Chief Information Security Officers and Chief Privacy Officers at hospitals throughout the United States.They also surveyed business associates…
Health Industry Winning Round On Privacy Of Digital Health Records
Emma Schwartz of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund writes: The tug-of-war over a little-known federal privacy rule–which has drawn in Congress, regulators and an array of interest groups–highlights the behind-the-scenes activity touched off by the government’s effort to spend some $45 billion in economic stimulus funds to push medical data online. Federal regulators are working…
Webinar on Tuesday: Taking a Pulse on HITECH, Are Hospitals and Business Associates Ready?
From HIMSS: Taking a Pulse on HITECH, Are Hospitals and Business Associates Ready? Date: 11/17/2009 2:00:00 PM-3:00:00 PM Registration Information Description: Webinar Times 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time 1:00 pm Central Standard Time 12:00 pm Mountain Standard Time 11:00 am Pacific Standard Time Session Abstract This webinar will discuss the findings from a survey of…
Police probe breach of NHS smartcard security as e-records launched in London
Tony Collins reports: An NHS trust at the forefront of work on the £12.7bn NHS IT scheme has called in police after a breach of smartcard security compromised the confidentiality of hundreds of electronic records. Patients in Hull have expressed their dismay that an unauthorised NHS employee has accessed their confidential records; and the local…
IN: Boxes of medical files found abandoned
Tom Moor reports: An agent with the Indiana attorney general’s office removed 21 boxes of medical records from a downtown office building Friday that contain the personal information of hundreds of local people. The boxes, consisting of thousands of sheets of paper, contain patients’ Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, diagnoses and prescriptions. […] Although…