Security, Security, #Security.....Encrypt your Drives by Default #HIT #hcsm #privacy

I was reminded of there Jerry Maguire movie clip when I read the latest in a long line of security breach stories - this one emanating from Canada where this group is in hot water over a massive 620,000 patient data breach…taking 4 months to notify authorities. Apparently Canada does not have a national Breach notification rule like the US and the public “Wall of Shame"

Canada does not have a federal health data breach notification requirement. But the Canadian provinces have their own rules, including some that mandate notification. Under Alberta's Health Information Act, which was enacted in 2001, the reporting of health data breaches is voluntary, privacy experts say.

 They might want to change that...


In this latest release Medicentres Family Health Care Clinics, a 27-clinic medical group in Western Canada had an unencrypted clinic laptop stolen from one of the clinic's IT consultants.

The laptop contained 620,000 patient names, dates of birth, health card numbers, medical diagnoses and billing codes, officials said.

Here in the US the chart of complaints is depressing


How many more data breaches will we see before everyone understands the need to pay close attention to security.
Encrypting your hard drives for all machines that contain patient information and demanding all staff and consultants and anyone that has access to patient data encrypts their drive and data would have prevented this.

VoiceoftheDoctor for the Month of September

This month we will be 
Sep 7

Brad Tritle (@BTritle)who is currenlty the chair of the HIMSS Social Media Task Force.  He is currently co-editing a forthcoming HIMSS book on consumer engagement and consulting under the Office of the National  Coordinator on consumer engagement for State HIEs and immunization registries. Amongst the areas of focus:

• Health Information Exchange
• Consumer e-health
• Personal Health Records
• privacy/security

You can read his interview ith HIMSS here
We will be discussing the dleivery of patinet care - where the patient and the change in system dleivery and technology innovation to achieve this including telehealth services for consumers, apps and how this relates to PHRs.  

Sep 14
ID Experts - Is the EHR a target for Cybercrime.....


Sep 21

Clint McClellan (Twitter @clintmc1) who is Sr. Dir. of Strategic Marketing at Qualcomm Life and the President and Chairman of the Continua Health Alliance. HE and I will be talking about the Continua Health Alliance which is a non-profit, open industry organization of healthcare and technology companieswho are collaborating to improve personal healthcare.They are establishing a system of interoperable personal connected health solutions that will help empower everyone to enageg in their own personal health wellness amangement. Take a look at their vision video here


He and I will be discussing some of the examples and soltuions in the personal health space and how these have eveolved from personal smartphones to dedicated gateways and what opportunities will open up for application developers?

Sep 28

Healthstory - Liora Alschuler, CEO of the Lantana Group and co-founder of Healthstory initiative. She is Co-chair, HL7 Structured Documents Work Group responsible for HL7’s Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), the first standard for healthcare based on XML. 

We will be discussing the Healthstory Intitaive and the recently finalized Meaningful Use Part 2 guidelines


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