A press release from Governor Rendell’s office, seen at SunHerald.com: Governor Edward G. Rendell announced today that he has signed an executive order creating the Pennsylvania Health Information Exchange, which is a framework that will give health care providers improved access to clinical data and lead to safer and more efficient patient-centered care. The…
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Was LabCorp too casual when it suffered a breach?
As reported in the previous news story, two women discovered “thousands” of LabCorp patients’ records strewn all over a public road. A LabCorp spokesperson suggested that the records might be pre-1993 records which wouldn’t contain Social Security numbers, but of course, that totally misses the point about privacy, which is more than just the issue…
Women Find Thousands of Medical Records Scattered Across Road
Ryan O’Donnell of WOAI reports: Thousands of sensitive medical documents fell out of a truck bed and ended up scattered across the road for just about anyone to see and take. The box belonged to Labcorp, one of the world’s largest companies that analyzes blood work, and contained thousands of patient medical records. […] A…
Reaction to NY Times editorial
Jeff Drummond was clearly none too impressed with a recent NY Times‘ editorial. He writes:  […] Let’s Fisk the Times piece: “The National Institutes of Health, which was responsible for safeguarding the data, made things worse by delaying in notifying the patients.” Really? How were things made worse? Was there an improper use that earlier…
Safeguarding Private Medical Data
This editorial appeared in the New York Times today: Almost 2,500 patients taking part in a federal medical trial recently had their private health data compromised when a researcher’s laptop computer was stolen. The National Institutes of Health, which was responsible for safeguarding the data, made things worse by delaying in notifying the patients. This…
Commentary: Paternalism — and protectionism — rears its ugly head
In the past few days, I’ve read two articles that are of particular concern to me because they raise the specter of “physician as God” when it comes to online health records or information. The first article, by Thomas Goetz in the New York Times, discusses a web site called PatientsLikeMe.com where patients can share…