A Fort Myers, FL-based cancer care organization is paying a massive price for a health data breach that exposed personal information on 2.2 million patients...
Medical Privacy
I thought the following TEDx video from Deborah C. Peel, MD, Founder and Chair of Patient Privacy Rights, would be an interesting contrast with some of the...
It seems like I have HIPAA and security on my mind lately. It started with me writing about the 6 HIPAA Compliance Reality Checks whitepaper and then carried...
It seems like healthcare big data is the topic du jour lately. Everyone seems interested in how they can tap into the big data in healthcare. I’m not...
The American Academy of Pediatrics is calling for changes to EMRs to protect the privacy of adolescent patients, whom, it says, don’t currently get the...
Making sure the clinical data flowing through HIEs is seen only by those patients designate is a tricky problem. But according to the ONC, it’s a...
It’s always a pleasure to touch base with the thoughtful blog (33 Charts) written by pediatric gastroenterologist Dr. Bryan Vartabedian. This time, I...
Right now, HHS is considering a new rule which would demand that hospitals, medical practices and health plans provide anyone who asks with a list of who has...
Boy, back in the good old days, protecting patient data was comparatively easy. All you had to do was make sure that nobody got their hands on a...