Joseph Goeddert reports: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will hold the last of a series of public meetings in Los Angeles on Nov. 18 as federal officials study whether HIPAA privacy protections for mental health information should be strengthened by broadening the definition of “psychotherapy notes” to include test data. […] The…
Social Networking Guidelines for Physicians, Office Staff and Patients
The Healthcare IT Guy blogs: Ohio State Medical Association (OSMA) Legal Services Group has released their Social Media Toolkit for Physicians, Office Staff and Patients to “help physicians navigate through the world of online communication”. I’ve taken a quick look and it’s a terrific document with a good discussion of whether or not physicians should “friend”…
IE: HSE ‘rocked’ by security breach on 1,500 patient records
Roisin Burke reports: Hundreds of patient records were seriously compromised by a major security breach at the HSE, the Sunday Independent has learned. The 1,500 sensitive health records were removed from a Dublin office and emailed to an outside organisation. A private IT contractor, who was being overseen by a HSE staff member, downloaded the…
Computer security at Tech questioned
Suzanne Barteau reports: A procedural mishap at New Mexico Tech’s Computer Center may have allowed the Social Security numbers of a few thousand people to be publicly available to anyone with a Tech computer account for nearly five years. William Colburn, Tech graduate, former Tech employee and Tech Community College instructor and current Tech student,…
Manx medical database a, thumbs up from many
According to recent findings most of the residents, 99% and above, to be precise in the Isle of Man agree with the idea of storage of medical information out on a central database, as per the government rules. Wednesday saw the last day for submission of details for creation of personal database at the Manx…
Medical Data Security: Spain Has Problems, Too
Over on AlertBoot, Sang Lee followed up on one of my posts to databreaches.net: After finding a tiny story about data breaches in Spain at databreaches.net, I decided to look into the situation since the article it referred to was quite unsatisfying. Turns out that the issue caused quite a stir in Spain, with over…