Over in her blog, Well, on the New York Times, Tara Parker-Pope recently blogged about the recent disclosure that an employee at UCLA had peeked at Farrah Fawcett’s records. In response to her blog, one commenter, “SavvyDoc,” commented that it was a “HUGE” invasion of privacy and the employee should have reprimanded (just “reprimanded,” SavvyDoc?),…
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Privacy advocate's health data is stolen
The Associated Press reports: If there’s one person whose medical records you wouldn’t want to lose track of, it’s the co-chairman of the congressional caucus that focuses on protecting consumers’ privacy. But that’s whose medical records went missing. Rep. Joe Barton was one of 3,000 patients whose records may have been breached when a National…
UK: NHS Confidentiality, or not…
Seen at the Fortuzero blog: The NHS Confidentiality campaign was set up to protect patient confidentiality and to provide a focus for patient-led opposition the government’s NHS Care Records System. This system is designed to be a huge national database of patient medical records and personal information (sometimes referred to as the NHS ’spine’) with…
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…
Rep. Barton Seeks Probe In Theft of Computer
Ellen Nakashima and Rick Weiss write in The Washington Post: Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), the ranking minority member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, revealed yesterday that he is among the approximately 3,000 heart patients whose medical information was potentially exposed to public scrutiny when an unencrypted government laptop was stolen in February from…
UCLA staffer looked through Farrah Fawcett's medical records
Charles Ornstein reports in the Los Angeles Times: Months before UCLA Medical Center caught its staffers snooping in the medical records of pop star Britney Spears, ’70s TV icon Farrah Fawcett learned that a hospital employee had surreptitiously gone through records of her cancer treatments there, documents and interviews show. Fawcett’s lawyers said they are…