The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner has been notified by Alberta Health Services that a virus was present on the Alberta Health Services network in Edmonton. The virus impacted the network and Netcare, Alberta’s electronic health record, before it was discovered and removed. The virus is a new variant of a Trojan horse [...]
Commission Urges Vigilance in Wake of Computer Virus Outbreak at Alberta Health Services
July 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Is EMR Adoption Opening the Door to Medical Identity Theft?
June 16, 2009 By 1 Comment
A 2007 federal report on crime — the most recent year for which data are available — found that more than 250,000 U.S. residents annually are victims of medical identity theft, the New York Times reports. Pam Dixon — executive director of World Privacy Forum and author of a 2006 medical identity theft report — [...]
Experts say HIT Standards must include privacy safeguards
May 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia The Obama administration’s drive to implement electronic health records (EHRs) should have strong identity management tools to ensure privacy and security of the records, members of a panel of providers, vendors and policy experts said today. The coming health information technology policies and standards are to include protections for patient [...]
EMR adoption higher in states with fewer privacy rules- American Medical News
May 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia State laws in place to protect patients’ confidentiality may be causing some hospitals to be more skittish about adopting electronic medical records systems, a factor that could impede the push for the industry to go paperless, a study says. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Virginia recently [...]
