by Danny van Leeuwen | Nov 11, 2016
On September 26, 2016, President Obama recognized Health IT Week by saying: We have worked to clarify an individual’s legal right to access their health information and transmit it where they choose—whether it’s to a family member or to their smartphone. These efforts...
by Nancy Finn | Jun 1, 2016
Computer Crime is the misuse of a computer or associated electronic networking system in order to commit illegal and unlawful acts. Computer crimes range from the illegal use of the internet to the unlawful accessing of information stored in computer systems. In...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 10, 2015
One pillar of participatory medicine, as SPM co-chair Dr. Danny Sands often says, is access to our medical records: “How can patients participate if they can’t see what I see??” But a major impediment to free-flowing information is incompetence or...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Apr 15, 2015
According to a new study in JAMA, data breaches into people’s protected health information (PHI) records are increasing: “[The] study that found almost 30 million health records nationwide were involved in criminal theft, malicious hacking or other data...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Mar 16, 2011
As a reminder that even the best technology still relies on humans not making dumb mistakes, PCMag.com reports that Health Net’s technology partner, IBM, has seemingly lost a few hard drives. Normally not a big deal. Except that these drives contained patient...
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