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• The Washington Post Advocating Violating Patient Privacy?

  
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  The seemingly cavalier attitude towards a patients legal right to privacy in a Washington Post article by personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary is disturbing. The article recounts how a patient treated for an eel in his buttocks had non care team hospital staff in New Zealand view his information and post ...
  2 weeks ago

• Should you be using Email for Patient Service?

  
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  By Ron Sterling Sterling Solutions The HIPAA Security Rules allow you to communicate with emails that include Protected Health Information as long as the patient acknowledges and accepts the risks associated with email. The key question is should you? The argument for using email includes the wide use and familiarity ...
  2 weeks ago

• Iris Scan No Solution to Insider Theft

  
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  Identity theft can leave healthcare organizations with unpaid bills and many are turning to biometric methods, such as iris scans, to prevent data breaches. But some experts, including Pam Dixon, of the World Privacy Forum, say electronic records make it easier to steal many identities at once, and using biometrics ...
  2 weeks ago

• HHS Tools to Educate Consumers about HIPAA Privacy

  
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  A number of consumers are unfamiliar with their rights under the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for Civil Rights (OCR) has released several new tools to educate not only consumers but health care providers. HHS has produced FAQs in multiple languages that compliment videos ...
  3 weeks ago

• Challenges of Moving Medical Imaging Into The Cloud

  
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  Networking and privacy issues are top concerns for managing imaging data in the cloud, which was a topic addressed at the recent RNSA conference. According to Fred Prior, PhD , of Washington University in St. Louis, cloud computing can offer many advantages to medical imaging , but effective project management is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Blood Donor ID Tax Fraud

  
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  Some donors gave more than blood when they visited BioMat USA. Bridgette Williams, of their employees, has pleaded guilty to stealing the donors identities which were then used to file fraudulent tax returns by co-conspirators. The identities of more than 130 people were stolen and almost $200,000 in tax returns were ...
  3 weeks ago

• Health Social Networking Sites and Inherent Risks to PHI

  
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  Many Social Networking Sites Lack Enough Information for Users to Make Privacy-sensitive Decisions In an open perspective article published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Dr. Jingquan Li, an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University, provides an indepth analysis and discussion ...
  4 weeks ago

• Eel X-ray Leak Breached Privacy: 33 Fired, Disciplined

  
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  A New Zealand man who sought treatment for an eel in his rectum had his privacy breached when hospital staff leaked his x-rays and inappropriately accessed his medical records. Thirty-three physicians, nurses and other hospital staff have been disciplined, and in some cases fired. A six month investigation found there ...
  4 weeks ago

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