David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA and Vince Kuraitis provide more food for thought on the e-CareManagement blog: Drs. Mandl and Kohane begin their recent article in NEJM with the statement that “large corporations are seeking an integral and transformative role in the management of health care information,†and then warn that this “will profoundly affect…
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Ph: Hospitals review policies in light of YouTube case
Jeannette Andrade, Kara Andrade, and Jerome Aning of the Philippine Daily Inquirer report: Hospitals in the Central Visayas region are strengthening their policies on patients’ right to privacy, particularly the prohibition of cellular phones and cameras in operating rooms, after an embarrassing video of a rectal operation found its way on the worldwide video-sharing site…
Health data missing: HealthAlliance PDA lost
Lisa Eckelbecker of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reports: The healthcare system Central New England HealthAlliance has sent letters to 384 patients notifying them that their personal information, including Social Security numbers and health insurance information, may be vulnerable because a hand-held computer used by a home health nurse is missing. […] In a letter…
Ending Secrecy: Physician Makes Case for Full Disclosure of Health Records
Ted Eytan, M.D., M.P.H., writes about the benefits of providing full disclosure of health records to the patient: My first exposure to the “for doctors’ eyes only” concept of the medical record occurred in high school, when I was working in a community hospital, and a patient waiting for a diagnostic exam began thumbing through…
Nurse pleads guilty to privacy violation
Carolyne Park reports in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: A Trumann woman who pleaded guilty to disclosing a patient’s health information is the first person in Arkansas to be convicted under a 5-year-old federal law designed to protect patient privacy, authorities said Wednesday. Andrea Smith, a 25-year-old licensed practical nurse, pleaded guilty to wrongfully disclosing a patient’s…
Warning on Storage of Health Records
Steve Lohr writes in the New York Times: In an article in The New England Journal of Medicine, two leading researchers warn that the entry of big companies like Microsoft and Google into the field of personal health records could drastically alter the practice of clinical research and raise new challenges to the privacy of…