Over in her blog, Well, on the New York Times, Tara Parker-Pope recently blogged about the recent disclosure that an employee at UCLA had peeked at Farrah Fawcett’s records. In response to her blog, one commenter, “SavvyDoc,” commented that it was a “HUGE” invasion of privacy and the employee should have reprimanded (just “reprimanded,” SavvyDoc?),…
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Calif. doc network chooses enterprise software, offers online PHR to patients
Richard Pizzi of Healthcare IT News reports: Bright Health Physicians of PIH, a multi-site network of primary care and specialty physicians, plans to implement an administrative software package that will allow patients access to health management tools like a personal health record. Bright Health has inked a deal with HealthTrio LLC, a provider of software…
Louisiana HIE goes live
Bernie Monegain of Healthcare IT News reports: The Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange, which includes 24 hospitals in northern Louisiana, is going live today on an integrated open systems platform that will enable teleconsultation among the hospitals. […] The integrated platform employs a federated model that offers clinicians secure access to a portal-based view of…
Perlegen strikes back on privacy
Healthcare IT News has this story: Last week, patient privacy advocate Deborah Peel, MD, wrote a letter to Healthcare IT News attacking Perlegen Sciences’ plans to work with an EMR vendor to use patient data for genetics research. In a new letter, Perlegen strikes back at Peel. To the editor, Healthcare IT News: We are…
Panacea or placebo: electronic health records come to the US
Jonathan M. Gitlin writes in Ars Technica: Doctors’ poor handwriting might be a cliché, but being able to accurately read medical records can often be a matter of life and death. The ubiquity of the personal computer has allowed the clinic to enter the digital age, and given that computers excel at managing information, the…
Patient privacy rights advocate attacks plans to mine medical records
From Health IT News: Deborah Peel, founder and chairman of Patient Privacy Rights, takes exception to a plan by Mountain View, Calif. -based Perlegen Sciences, Inc. to collaborate with an undisclosed electronic medical records vendor to identify and develop genetic markers that predict how patients are likely to respond to specific medical treatments. The New…