The HHS Office for Civil Rights fined St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton, Mass., in a settlement of HIPAA allegations of lax Internet security, even as The New York Times reported on a health system using Skype.
The Internet was abuzz Wednesday evening after ESPN pro football reporter Adam Schefter tweeted a photo of a medical record supposedly showing that New York Giants player Jason Pierre-Paul had had a finger amputated.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Criminal attacks have become the leading cause of healthcare data breaches, according to the Traverse City, Mich.-based Ponemon Institute. It is the first time in the five-year history of Ponemon’s annual survey of privacy and security of healthcare data that malicious activity, not negligence or technology glitches, was the No. 1 threat; in fact, Ponemon […]
Patients are increasingly troubled about security breaches that involve personal health information, with 45 percent saying they were at least moderately concerned, prompting some to even withhold certain personal information from their doctors, according to a survey from Software Advice. The number of patients declining to share information, while relatively small at 21 percent, is […]
Ebola has reached the US, and hospitals across the country are preparing for the potential that patients will need to be screened and treated. Your hospital may have considered issues such as how to prevent the virus from spreading and how to identify patients who have, or may have, Ebola. Has your hospital, however, considered […]
California recently enacted legislation that goes even beyond HIPAA for patient privacy, particularly as privacy relates to the bevy of new healthcare products hitting the market through mobile apps and personal health records. Assembly Bill 658, the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown last September with seemingly little […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
A decade ago almost all doctors kept paper charts on every patient. That is changing quickly as laptops become as common as stethoscopes in exam rooms. Recent hacking attacks have raised questions about how safe that data may be. Here are some frequently asked questions about this evolution underway in American medicine and the […]
In a demonstration of just how widespread health data privacy concerns have gotten and the pervasiveness of smartphones as a personal health tool, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts cited these trends in an opinion on cell phone searches by police. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that police must get a warrant […]
Today’s #Path2Cures panel is a great reminder that patients need to be at the heart of all we do. — Nick Valeriani (@njvaleriani) June 24, 2014 Dr. Martin Harris, Chief Information Officer of Cleveland Clinic, has the best idea about how to cope with HIPAA that I’ve heard in a long time: Give patients the […]
In a world where people are making money off shared data, anonymity in mHealth is valuable. The reality is that even conducting a Google search of your symptoms means that someone (often, many companies) are collecting information about where you are and the nature of your health complaints. A few companies make health information seeking […]
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Anne Wojcicki made a strong case for getting your DNA sequenced to the crowd at SxSW but she had no easy answers for questions about privacy or the FDA.
In England, consultants uploaded the country's entire healthcare dataset – inpatient, outpatient and emergency room records - to Google servers outside Britian.
While many still worry about patient privacy and the security of medical and health information, a former diva’s medical records prove technological progress is not at the center of medical privacy invasion. Marilyn Monroe’s x-rays and medical records are up for auction at Julien’s Auctions, and are expected to sell for $20,000 to $30,000, Vanity […]
Snyderman: a low tech patient centric solution is to simply be neighborly. Take the gloves off. Be human. #TXFM pic.twitter.com/Uz06VjYWXw — Spark (@uofuspark) September 10, 2013 Watching the #txfm Twitter stream this morning made me wish I had been in the audience for Dr. Nancy Snyderman’s opening talk at the Mayo Clinic’s Transform conference. She […]
If you don’t follow Hugo Campos (@HugoOC) on Twitter, you probably should. He’s changing the way at least one of the big medical device companies–Medtronic (MDT)–thinks about sharing data with patients. He’s also posting interesting stuff on patient empowerment, privacy and data democritization. Campos posts regularly, too. He seems to really curate his feed. Here are […]