Markian Hawryluk reports: Officials from Bend Memorial Clinic have filed a criminal complaint with Bend police alleging that employees of Cascade Healthcare Community’s new cancer center at St. Charles Bend have inappropriately viewed patient records from the clinic. But clinic leadership declined to explain why they believe the cancer center staff had acted inappropriately, and…
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HIPAA Expands to Personal Health Records — Just Not Google's or Microsoft's, If You Ask Them
Neil Versel of BNET reports: Although Google and Microsoft have gotten plenty of attention for their Web-based personal health records, both companies have long maintained that they’re not bound by the privacy protections of a 1996 federal law known as HIPAA. And despite a recent HIPAA change — one intended to extend its privacy…
Calif. agency probes snooping of octuplet mom’s medical records
Rebecca Vesely reports: The California Department of Public Health has launched an investigation into Kaiser Permanente Bellflower (Calif.) Medical Center after nearly two dozen employees peeked at medical records of Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to octuplets at the facility in January. “This is an issue that is quickly evolving for us,†said Al Lundeen,…
Sullivan Nicolaides breach worse than originally reported
As a follow-up to a breach reported on the companion site, databreaches.net, last week, a reader sends a link to a second article by Anna Caldwell and David Earley that shows how the breach was more extensive than originally reported and how despite the fact that Sullivan Nicolaides removed the files from their site, copies…
Get Ready for EHR Failures, But Don’t Blame the Software
Austin Merritt of Software Advice is a proponent of EHR and has written a column that identifies what he sees as major reasons why EHR adoption may fail: Our concern is that the subsidies won’t change healthcare providers’ late adopter mindsets about information technology. Providers may jump at “free software†and try to avoid penalties…
Mayo puts HealthVault on hold, PHR questions linger
Joseph Conn reports: The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., one of the nation’s premier and best-known healthcare organizations, has yet to deploy the HealthVault personal health record from Microsoft Corp., despite a big-splash publicity notice linking of the two organizations more than a year ago, according to Mayo spokesman Karl Oestreich. The Mayo Clinic, thus, is…