Facebook + health data = all sorts of HIPAA questions
“Time’s Person of the Year is Mark Zuckerberg. Sorry, Julian Assange, I guess you didn’t violate enough people’s privacy.” — Stephen Colbert, Dec. 15, 2010. Yes, Facebook has issues with privacy. Just...
View ArticleA vendor’s view on selling of data
As long as there have been EMRs, there have been vendors selling aggregated, de-identified data. And there have been people worried about privacy. That issue came up last week AHIMA Legal EHR Summit...
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‘Five rights’ for data administration
You know about the “five rights” for medication administrations: the right drug, for the right patient, in the right dosage, on the right route, at the right time. More recently we’ve seen “five...
View ArticleAustralia considers huge fines for EHR snooping
How’s this for a deterrent against unauthorized snooping into patient EHRs? Australian Health Minister Nicola Roxon recently proposed whopping fines of A$13,200 for individuals and A$66,000 for...
View ArticleYes, you do have a right to your health records
Lest anyone forget — including the American Hospital Association, which wants to take 30 days post-discharge to supply copies of medical records to patients — HIPAA explicitly gives patients the right...
View ArticleComprehensive coverage of WTN Media’s Digital Health Conference
As you may know from at least one of my earlier posts, I was in Madison, Wis., last month for a great little health IT event called the Digital Health Conference, a production of the Wisconsin...
View ArticleTop 10 things wrong with Fox News smear job on EHRs
Today, FoxNews.com published a hit job on health IT and EHRs in the guise of another hit job on Obamacare. I found out about it courtesy of this tweet: This story is crap- on so many levels...
View ArticlePodcast: MMRGlobal’s Bob Lorsch addresses the ‘patent troll’ issue
Two weeks ago, I picked apart a terribly misleading, ideologically steeped Fox News story that wrongly linked the initial failure of the healthcare.gov Affordable Care Act insurance exchange to the...
View ArticleThe ‘Hospital of Tomorrow’
WASHINGTON—I’ve just finished 2 1/2 days of helping US News and World Report cover its inaugural Hospital of Tomorrow conference. My assignment was to sit in on four of the breakout sessions, take...
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Kill your fax machine (redux) and watch out for HIPAA violations
Today, noted medical informatics professor and professional Dr. Bill Hersh had this exchange on Twitter with his daughter, a new medical student. MT “@AlyssaHersh: Just sent a fax for the first time...
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