By the fall of 2009, if all goes as planned, Oregon’s 400,000 Medicaid recipients could be receiving a higher quality of health care through one high-tech change, according to the Department of Human Services. The agency is taking the lead on an effort to put the patients’ records online. The records would be accessible to…
Kaiser completes outpatient EHR rollout
Bernie Monegain reports in Healthcare IT News: Kaiser Permanente has completed the rollout of its outpatient electronic health record system in nine states and the District of Columbia. Kaiser’s 13,000 physicians in 421 offices now have electronic access to their patients’ medical records. Kaiser officials bill the system, called Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect, as the world’s…
Hk: HA sets up Task Force on Patient Data Security and Privacy (updated)
From the press release: The Chief Executive of the Hospital Authority ( HA ), Mr Shane Solomon, today ( May 5 ) announced the appointment of a Task Force on Patient Data Security and Privacy with the objectives of enhancing system security and patient data protection, following cases of loss of electronic devices containing patient…
Anti-Discrimination Bill Inadvertently Legalizes Sharing of Genetic Information Without Patient Consent
The Institute for Health Freedom has published a new article on its site: “While authors of the recently passed Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (H.R. 493) had good intentions, the bill inadvertently legalizes the sharing of genetic information without patient consent,†says Sue Blevins, president of the Institute for Health Freedom (IHF). “It…
Finjan finds patient data on hackers' server
In its latest Malicious Page of the Month Report [pdf], Finjan, Inc. reports that it discovered … a server controlled by hackers (Crimeserver) containing more than 1.4 Gigabyte of business and personal data stolen from infected PCs. The data consisted of 5,388 unique log files. Both email communications and web-related data were among them. The…
Canada: Fax had personal information
Angela Hall reports in the Leader-Post: Even the old office fax machine can pose a security breach, Saskatchewan’s information and privacy commissioner warned Monday. Gary Dickson’s office was recently handed a roll of thermal film from a fax machine that had been sold by public auction to someone in Prince Albert, likely in late 2004….