A press release from AHIMA via PRNewswire: A new report that features four leading experts in health information management in an extended roundtable discussion on key issues related to the privacy and security of health information-and ways in which the industry may best address those issues — is now available. “Online, on Message, on Duty:…
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(WellCare update) Insurance records of 71,000 Ga. families made public
As an update to the story reported here, Bill Hendrick of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution provides additional details: Private records of up to 71,000 Georgia families who are members of health insurance programs for the poor or working poor were accidentally made available on the Internet for several days, and some of the data may have…
Gaps In Hospital Security Policies Put Patient Data At Risk
From Kroll’s press release: Best practices in data security cannot be achieved by employee training alone. Organizations must make data security a part of their DNA, reflected in every aspect of business operations. The healthcare industry’s focus on medical privacy and compliance has fostered a lack of awareness around the frequency, cause and seriousness of…
Your medical history is a click away
Katie Foutz has an article in the Naperville Sun that starts out by describing how helpful it can be to have electronic health records: […] While victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita relocated to places around the country, they couldn’t always remember the names or dosages of the medications their Gulf Coast doctors had prescribed….
World Privacy Forum files comments on proposed rules regarding Patient Safety Organizations
The World Privacy Forum filed extensive comments today regarding privacy protections for patients whose health care information will be shared with patient safety safety organizations under newly proposed Department of Health and Human Services regulations. After a landmark Institute of Medicine report on the prevalence of medical errors and their harmful impact on patients (To…
Making the Case for Uploading Personal Medical Data (Opinion)
Theodore F. di Stefano writes in E-Commerce Times: Consolidated medical information online could not only save lives but also create efficiencies. Plus, privacy concerns could be swept aside by allowing patients to secure their data by giving short-term or long-term passwords to medical providers. […] First of all, you the patient would obviously have the…