Health IT pros warn of network vulnerabilities during ‘cyberwar’ – FierceHealthIT
It may not be hackers that present the greatest threat to EHR databases, but terrorist groups or rogue regimes, a hospital IT director told federal officials last we…
Little Benefit Seen, So Far, in Electronic Patient Records – NYTimes.com
A new study comparing 3,000 hospitals at various stages in the adoption of computerized health records has found little difference in the cost and quality of care.
Reducing …
Police probe breach of NHS smartcard security as e-records launched in London | 16 Nov 2009 | ComputerWeekly.com
An NHS trust at the forefront of work on the £12.7bn NHS IT scheme has called in police after a breach of smartcard security compromi…
Indian police arrest company boss accused of selling medical records of British patients | Mail Online
The head of an Indian outsourcing company has been arrested for selling confidential medical records of patients treated at one of Britain’s top…
IBM to open health analytics center in Dallas | Dallas Morning News | Dallas Business News
IBM’s Business Analytics and Optimization segment is expected to grow at around 10 percent this year, and to between 15 and 20 percent from 2010 onward, acc…
State institute found to be illegally collecting personal medical data – Radio Prague
The Office for Personal Data Protection says it has never encountered such a large-scale database of illegally collected personal data: information from 200,000 …
Private medical records for sale: Harley Street clinic patients’ files outsourced for computer input – and end up on black market | Mail Online
The confidential medical records of patients treated at one of Britain’s top private hospitals have b…
Study ID’s prescription privacy risks – UPI.com
Canadian researchers say they’ve determined information contained in hospital prescription records can be used to easily identify patients.
Emam said many retail pharmacies in Canada sell prescripti…
Fuzzy Math? Rising Costs in Government’s Digital Health Stimulus | The Huffington Post Investigative Fund
Creating digital medical records for every American within the next five years – a key provision of President Obama’s stimulus package –…
doctors-identification-stolen — chicagotribune.com
About 800,000 doctors — nearly every practicing physician in the country — are being warned that business and personal information such as Social Security numbers, addresses and certain identif…