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N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web, Including Medical Records - Yet Another Reason To Be Concerned About What You Tell Your Physician
There's already a major issue with privacy and protection of medical records in electronic form. See the multiple blog posts at this qu...
Calling Dr. Moe, Dr. Larry and Dr. Curly: Advocate Medical Breach of Four Million Patient Records, and No Encryption
Kim Kardashian, Meet Electronic Medical Records
In yet another example of breach of medical record privacy ( http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/search/label/medical%20record%20privacy ), Kim Ka...
IRS faces class action lawsuit over theft of 60 million medical records
Try this with paper records. This is spectacular (as in, spectacularly alarming) if true: IRS faces class action lawsuit over theft of 60 m...
But don't worry, your EHR information is secure
My last reminder of this issue was almost a half-year ago, but I think a repeat is in order. More bugs squashed: Microsoft fixes critical Wi...
Senator Stephen H. Martin of Virginia: proposed limitations on use, storage, sharing, & processing of electronic medical record data
Here's a politician who certainly seems concerned with the privacy and confidentiality and flawed-analysis downsides of electronic hea...
Why It's Crazy to Want Your Most Confidential Information Put into An Electronic Medical Records System
Besides the reasons I outlined in posts retrievable by these query links ( link , link ), there's this from ZDNet.com: Microsoft warns o...
Computer Viruses Are "Rampant" on Medical Devices in Hospitals
As if there weren't enough problems with hospitals as computing backwaters, now there's this: Computer Viruses Are "Rampant...
Bad health IT and its effects on willingness of patients to share sensitive information
A Good Reason to Refuse Use of Today's EHR's in Your Health Care, and Demand Paper
I've written before that health IT, including the technology and the social infrastructure in which it resides, is not ready for widespr...
EHR sabotage for ransom: Try this with paper!
I have frequently written that health IT, touted as a technology that will deterministically "transform medicine", allows (aside f...
Banking as the Standard Healthcare Should Look Up To On Medical Information Security?
At past posts " Don't Worry, Your Electronic Medical Records Are Getting Safer With Every Passing Day ", " Another Episod...
More Electronic Medical Record Breaches: You Could Not Do This With Paper
I have written repeatedly on the dangers posed by poorly managed health IT regarding information breaches. See " 2011 Closes on a Note...
Don't Worry, Your Electronic Medical Records Are Getting Safer With Every Passing Day
At my Oct. 2011 post " Still More Electronic Medical Data Chaos, Pandemonium, Bedlam, Tumult and Maelstrom: But Don't Worry, Your ...
Proposed new Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: Is It Too Late For Healthcare?
From the White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/02/23/fact-sheet-plan-protect-privacy-internet-age-adopting-consumer-p...
Perhaps Hospitals Don't Care Much That EHRs Can Be Dangerous, Because EHRs Lets them Attract 'Good Paying Customers' And Exclude the Old and Poor
This comes as no surprise to me. I believe it may help explain hospital's cavalier attitudes towards the risks of today's commercia...
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
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I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
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I think you can guess who said that. Actually, here is what the President said at the American Medical Association Meeting in July, 2009––an...
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Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
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Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piec...
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Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
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Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
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The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
