On March 3, dialysis services providers DVA Renal Healthcare, Inc. notified [pdf] the NH DOJ that a laptop stolen from an employee’s vehicle contained unencrypted personal information on current or former patients. Ann DesRuisseaux, DaVita’s Assistant General Counsel, did not indicate the date of the theft itself, saying only that the company “recently” discovered the…
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NZ: Hospital IDs focus of privacy debate
Stephen Bell Wellington writes in Computerworld: With the renewed focus on privacy in both New Zealand and Australia, Melbourne-based health software company TrakHealth has had to defend the approach it took to a public health patient-tracking system it recently developed for Brazil. The system will provide every Brazilian with an identifying number and plastic card…
Hospital donor files compromised
Markian Hawryluk and Betsy Q. Cliff report in The Bulletin: A computer virus may have exposed to outside eyes the names, credit card numbers, dates of birth and home addresses of more than 11,500 individuals who donated to Cascade Healthcare Community, the parent company of St. Charles in Bend and Redmond. The virus penetrated the…
Will privacy keep Health 2.0 from the starting gate?
Business journalist Dana Blankenhorn writes on ZDNet: […] Just two weeks ago the World Privacy Forum, ironically also based in San Diego, came out with two warnings about Personal Health Records (PHRs) which made them appear to be a tragedy waiting to happen. PHRs, once placed online, are not covered by HIPAA, the forum said,…
Health Information Technology Executives Overwhelmingly Believe the Industry Needs to Work Together on Information Security
A new survey shows that 96 percent of health information technology (HIT)Â executives think it is important to have a uniform way for verifying the security of sensitive healthcare information, and 85 percent think it is time for the industry to come together and develop a comprehensive framework that can provide that uniformity. The survey,…
Federal agencies begin to build a mini-NHIN
Twenty federal agencies are moving to develop a health information exchange network with a shared connection to the Nationwide Health Information Network. Dr. Robert Kolodner, national coordinator for health information technology, announced the effort, known as the NHIN-Connect Gateway or NHIN-C, at the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society conference in Orlando, Fla. Read More –…