Patient privacy news and information

When patients arrive for an appointment at Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center, Charlotte, N.C., a staff member snaps a quick photo. But this isn't like photo for a driver's license or passport. The focus is on the eyes. Like something out of a science fiction movie, the new system at...
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The CMS is seeking public comment on how best to make physician-specific Medicare payment data publicly available while also protecting the privacy of patients. Physician organizations have vigorously opposed the release of physician-specific data but the dike appears to be crumbling.
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The healthcare industry is gradually overcoming its fears and is—finally—about to get high on the cloud.
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Based on a Modern Healthcare online poll sponsored by 3M, more than 22% of respondents said that privacy filters are significantly effective in keeping patient data displayed on device screens private, and almost half indicated they believed the screens are somewhat effective.
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The Oregon Health & Science University is notifying more than 3,000 of its patients of a breach of their personally identifiable information after their data were placed by OHSU resident physicians on a pair of Google's cloud-based information-sharing services.
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As more of Alaska's healthcare providers transition to electronic medical records, a health information exchange network is being lauded as better for doctors and patients, but also has its share of controversy over privacy.
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About 18,700 students at the University of Virginia have been notified by a campus health official that Social Security numbers were printed along with their names and addresses on a recently mailed brochure touting a commercially offered student health insurance plan.
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Some U.S. states are reviewing their policies around the collection and sale of health information to ensure that some patients can't be identified in publicly available databases of hospital records.
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Craig Michael Lie Njie spent a chunk of his life developing an online privacy shield, but when he tried to get his own mother to use it, she wouldn't click on the button. Why?
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The biggest overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system in 50 years has spawned one of the most complex computer projects in the government's history. Dubbed “the hub,” the $267 million computer system built by a unit of UnitedHealth Group is one of the most important determiners of whether...
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