Rebecca L. Williams of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP writes: What if Artificial Intelligence (AI) is deployed within a health system to apply machine learning to patient information, in part, to allow patients to download information and wellness numbers (such as steps, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels) and to check on their own well-being without coming…
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UK: GP practices told to review 44,000 patient records after data loss glitch
Carolyn Wickware reports: GPs are set to have to review tens of thousands of patient records following a problem where dates and times of entries were removed. Over 2,500 practices have lost patient data including read codes, vaccination information and pathology results due to a problem with importing records of returning patients. The problem, which…
Breach of trust: Firefighter accused of taking pictures of patients
Tara Morgan reports from Ohio: A Columbus firefighter is accused of snapping a picture and recording video of patients and then sharing the images. An anonymous letter and a flash drive with videos and pictures were delivered to several offices of the Division of Columbus Fire, with allegations that city work and federal rules were…
Resource: 5 steps to get a handle on your practice’s cyber vulnerability
This free webinar, recorded in September, 2017, might be very helpful to small practices or solo practitioners who are feeling overwhelmed about how to start hardening their security to comply with HIPAA and to prevent attacks or breaches. From the AMA: A staggering 83 percent of physicians recently told AMA researchers that their practices have…