Carlos Mayorga reports in the Daily Utah Chronicle, the U. of Utah student newspaper: Officials in several U health science facilities are working to toughen enforcement of privacy policies and procedures after an audit in October 2007 revealed several key vulnerabilities in employees’ ability to protect patient information. For two months in late 2007, four…
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Gilbert couple receive strangers' medical records via fax
Gary Harper writes for 3 On Your Side: Junk faxes are always a nuisance, but wait until you hear what one Gilbert couple is receiving on their fax machine. This is kind of a weird one because the faxes are coming from an insurance company. What kind of faxes are we talking about? Well, how…
25 national organizations urge privacy in e-prescribing
A press release I just received by e-mail: Twenty five organizations, including the ACLU, the Republican Liberty Caucus, the American Council for the Blind and the National Association of Social Workers joined forces via the Coalition for Patient Privacy to urge Congress to include privacy protections in any federal electronic prescribing legislation. Read the Coalition’s…
UK: Potential security flaw in NPfIT Choose and Book, the Sun reports
Tony Collins writes in ComputerWeekly: The Sun has reported on a potential security breach with the “Choose and Book” system – part of the NHS’s National Programme for IT [NPfIT] – at a GP practice at Essex. The paper has an editorial piece about the potential breach under the headline “Data Dunces”. The Sun reports…
Hospital admits error in handling I.D. theft
Glenn Nyback of the Staten Island Advance reports: As tens of thousands of Staten Island University Hospital patients seethe over the decision by hospital administrators to wait four months before informing them that a computer containing their personal information was stolen, SIUH’s chief executive conceded officials could have handled the situation differently. The hospital only…
HIMSS survey on attitudes about PHR
Two of the more interesting findings from the May 2008 HIMSS Vantage Point report [pdf]: 49% of respondents have agreed that the biggest barrier that they face to the use of a personal health record is a concern that their information will be private and secure. 92% of respondents indicated that they, the patient, should…