Dana Blankenhorn writes: Lots of people want to limit healthcare automation, judging from talkbacks here at ZDNet Healthcare. Their rallying cry is privacy. A group called Patient Privacy Rights, headed by Texas psychologist Deborah Peel (right) and lobbyist Ben Barnes, is their advocate. Their mission statement does not say they’re against automation. Just the opposite. They…
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Putting data breach genie back in bottle? Good luck
Over on FierceHealthIT, Anne Zieger writes: […] The problem is, nobody can put the data breach genie back in the bottle once it’s gotten out. Once data has been compromised, even a company with the billions in revenue enjoyed by TJX can make consumers feel completely insecure. And paying a huge settlement won’t do a…
DaVita burglary: patient info stolen
For what appears to be the second time this year, DVA Renal Healthcare (DaVita) has had to notify current or former patients that their data was stolen. In the most recent incident, a DaVita facility in Florida was burglarized and desktop computers were stolen. Although the computers were reportedly password-protected, there was no assertion that…
Microsoft, Google Joust—and Concur—On Personal Health Records
Chad Berndtson reports: They may be cutthroat competitors. But tried as their representatives did to explain the fundamental differences between two personal health record (PHR) platforms,Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Google also may yet have some detente—at least when it comes to the like-minded goal of managing vast quantities of personal health information to benefit end…
Former Pa. nursing aide pleas guilty to ID theft
A former nurses assistant has admitted stealing the personal information of a 75-year-old patient from a suburban Philadelphia nursing home. Police say 28-year-old Jennifer Antonelli of Conshohocken stole a check from the patient’s room and used it to open accounts on the Internet and pay her and her boyfriend’s personal bills in 2007. […] At…
NL: Privacy row over putting Dutch medical charts on file
From Mohit Joshi: If Dutch health minister Ab Klink has his way, the medical charts of all Dutch nationals will be stored in a single national database as of January 1. From that day onwards, the family doctor can read what the neurologist has written down about his patient, while the neurologist can study his…