Data on more than 3,000 patients in Hong Kong public hospitals has been lost through the theft of computer memory sticks, officials said Monday. Nine memory sticks have been stolen from five hospitals across the city of 6.9 million in the past year, the hospital authority’s chief executive Shane Solomon said. A task force headed…
AHIMA Releases Privacy Roundtable Report
A new privacy and security report from four leading HIM experts is now available. In “Online, on Message, on Duty: Privacy Experts Share Their Challenges” four experts in health information privacy participated in a roundtable discussion on key issues related to the privacy and security of health information-and ways in which the industry may best…
TX: Sensitive Information Found Blowing In The Wind
Seema Mathur reports for CBS11: Piles of documents with private information were found out in the open at an abandoned health care facility that was demolished in Fort Worth. Harry Daughtry lives near the rubble. Until this weekend, Daughtry said the abandoned health care facility had been a nuisance for years. After the demolition trucks…
NZ: Privacy fears over demand for health figures
Martin Johnston writes in the New Zealand Herald: The Government wants to force private health services and funders to provide statistics, sparking patient-privacy objections and a demand for payment. The Public Health Bill extends the obligation to provide statistics requested by the Health Minister, which now rests with district health boards, to “any provider or…
Internet Health Records: Convenience at a Cost?
Joanne Silberner writes on NPR: “There are Web sites that allow you to keep information about your medical treatment online, where you and your doctor can access it easily. An article in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday asks if electronic medical records are the next big thing in health care. The answer?…
Technology to Allow Automated Medical Information to Transmit, Store Through Wireless System
Michael Dinan reports on TMCNet: A medical technology company announced today that implantable devices to measure data such as people’s heart rhythms could soon be used to send health records to doctors and databases. St. Jude Medical, Inc. is working with Microsoft Corp. Health Solutions Group to determine how data collected through devices such…