A memory stick containing information about the STI tests of 146 people has gone missing from the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. All patients have been informed of the loss. The stick is assumed to have been stolen on Thursday 21st August. Read more in Pink News
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Health Care Provider Plugs Potential Data Leak Points
Paul Korzeniowski reports in Dark Reading: Meridian Health Hospitals needed a way for its users to access personal and Web-based email systems at work without risking any data leaks. The New Jersey-based health care organization — which operates four hospitals, oversees long-term care facilities, provides home health care services, supplies health care equipment, operates a…
Personal Health Records: Directing More Costs and Risks to Consumers?
Terry, Nicolas P.,Personal Health Records: Directing More Costs and Risks to Consumers?(August 22, 2008). Download full article from SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1248768 Abstract: This article is principally concerned with a subset of electronic health records known as personal health records. In contrast to the more familiar charts, paper records, and electronic medical records maintained by health care…
Ensuring the Privacy and Confidentiality of Electronic Health Records
Terry, Nicolas P. and Francis, Leslie P., Ensuring the Privacy and Confidentiality of Electronic Health Records (October 12, 2007). University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2007, pp. 681-735, 2007 Full-text article available for free download from SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=886904 Abstract: The federal government is fast-tracking a nationally based interoperable health records system. What may at first…
A National Health Information Network — What Are the Real Privacy Issues?
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 mandated the development of a unique patient identifi er (UPI) for “every individual, employer, health plan, and health care provider.†UPIs were intended to serve as central building blocks for new health information technologies and to enable physicians, hospitals, and other authorized users to share…
Privacy concerns halt DNA database
Jason Felch of the Los Angeles Times reports: The National Institutes of Health quietly blocked public access to databases of patient DNA profiles after learning of a study that found the genetic information may not be as anonymous as previously believed, the Los Angeles Times has learned. NIH officials took the unusual step on Monday…