Vital Signs: Examining Our Health Data
October 10th, 2008
Ever wonder who sorts through all the data that powers your all-knowing health insurance company? Samuel A. McKinney did. McKinney was surprised to find...
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Content of weblogs written by health professionals
October 1st, 2008
BACKGROUND: Medical weblogs (“blogs”) have emerged as a new connection between health professionals and the public. OBJECTIVE: To examine the scope and content of...
Equipment losses still plague VA: GAO report — by Joseph Conn
August 6th, 2008
This is powerful story because the expert quoted points out that most organizations do not bother to account for lost or stolen equipment that...
Missing Laptop Keeps Firm From Registering New Fliers — by Joseph Galante
August 6th, 2008
Verified Identity Pass (Clear), a firm that specializes in keeping fliers sensitive personal information secure, doesn’t encrypt data and had a laptop stolen. Do...
Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers’ Health “Scores”
August 6th, 2008
Yesterday, The Washington Post featured an article describing what the authors called “a powerful new tool for evaluating whether to cover individual consumers: a...
Failed IT causes major Georgia Blue Cross health privacy breach
August 4th, 2008
Poor system testing caused a medical records privacy breach affecting over 200,000 members of Georgia Blue Cross and Blue Shield. The case has implications...
Dr. Peel on Role-based access to electronic medical records and BIDMC
July 4th, 2008
Role-based access controls do not protect privacy. The longstanding definition of privacy in American and international law is that ‘privacy’ means the individual’s right...
Role Based Access Control
May 6th, 2008
Protecting privacy is foundational to electronic health records and healthcare information exchange. In 2007, the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel specified the technical standards...
Military health forum envisions clinical analytics — by Peter Buxbaum
April 2nd, 2008
David Winn is right, when you sign up for the military, you have to do whatever they say.
The problem is that the Administration and...
Electronic Health Records wired for abuse
March 29th, 2008
“Oops! They did it to Britney again.” No, it’s not a song parody, but a reflection of the poor state of American health privacy...