Bernie Monegain reports: Medical centers that elect to keep psychiatric files private and separate from the rest of a person’s medical record may be doing their patients a disservice, a Johns Hopkins study concludes. In a survey of psychiatry departments at 18 of the top American hospitals as ranked by U.S. News & World Report’s…
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Omnicell databreach affects over 8,500 patients in New Jersey
And yet another organization — South Jersey Healthcare — has come forward to say that their patients were affected by the Omnicell breach discussed previously on this blog. According to The Daily Journal, 8,555 of their patients were affected. Interestingly, The Daily Journal describes the device as a laptop. All other coverage has been silent…
Update on Omnicell stolen device breach: 56,000 Sentara patients impacted
When an electronic device with unencrypted patient information was stolen from the unattended vehicle of an Omnicell employee, the University of Michigan Health System notified 3,997 of their patients, but there were other hospitals that were not named at the time. Thanks to WVEC, we now know 56,000 Sentara Healthcare patients treated between Oct. 18 and…
Reducing insider breaches – what works?
Over the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to talk to a number of people in different organizations who are concerned with insider breaches in the health care sector. One of those people is Kurt Long, CEO and Founder of FairWarning, a firm that provides patient privacy monitoring (privacy breach detection) systems. So, here’s a…
Health-care sector vulnerable to hackers (and other security problems), researchers say
This will come as absolutely no surprise to regular readers of this blog, but The Washington Post has published the results of an investigation into security in the healthcare sector, and the results are… well, what I’d expect. The article is instructive for the range of problems it covers and some real-world examples. Many of…
Nurses turning to un-authorized smartphones to meet data demands
John Cox reports: A new study finds that more than two-thirds of nurses are using their personal smartphones for clinical communications. Yet 95% of nurses in the sample say hospital IT departments don’t support that use for fear of security risks. The report, “Healthcare without Bounds: Point of Care Computing for Nursing 2012,” by Spyglass Consulting Group, points to the…