Posted on August 26th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
The unshredded records included pathology reports with patients’ names, addresses, and results of breast, bone, and skin cancer tests, as well as the results of lab work following miscarriages.
By law, medical records and documents containing personal identifying information must be disposed of in a way that protects privacy, and leaving them at a dump is [...]
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Filed under: Privacy, Records Management
Posted on August 23rd, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
More than 100 pages of medical records related to a veteran’s heart condition and benefit claims went missing, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
George Wincapaw, a 63-year-old Vietnam War veteran who for years turned in paperwork to the Veterans Benefits Administration of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), was recently asked for copies of medical [...]
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Filed under: Privacy, Records Management
Posted on August 13th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
For the first half of 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights has reported 119 instances of medical record breaches which have put at risk some 5 million patients’ healthcare information, says Cathy Leahy, CEO of Datamed Health Informatics based in Bellingham, Wash. in a recent Hospital Impact posting.
The [...]
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Filed under: Information Technology, Privacy, Records Management
Posted on August 10th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
The Recordkeeping Standards Project is creating new standards for good recordkeeping in the Victorian Government. The Public Record Office Victoria is working with recordkeeping professionals across the state to develop high quality Standards products that are relevant and implementable. The project’s key goal is to improve the standard of recordkeeping across the Victorian Government.
To read [...]
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Filed under: Records Management
Posted on August 2nd, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
The new PROV Recordkeeping Standard for Strategic Management is concerned with the formulation, implementation and evaluation of records management strategy. Bookings are now being taken for information briefings which focus on some of the key risk and compliance aspects of the Standard. These sessions are in addition to the training courses for records managers which [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
This month, we’d love your thoughts on Constitution Day and our new format Memento – so check out the blog and the magazine online. And don’t forget to download the recipe for Maggie Beer’s Constitution Cake.
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(Picture courtesy of www.naa.gov.au)
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Posted on July 8th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
Medical staff rarely consider family history when caring for acutely ill patients in hospital, according to research published in the Medical Journal of Australia.
Dr Andrew Langlands, from the Royal Perth Hospital, and co-authors conducted an audit of the medical records of 300 randomly selected patients who were admitted to the hospital’s short-stay medical unit between [...]
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Filed under: Health, Records Management
Posted on June 10th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
CEO’s message to software industry partners
This year is a landmark in the development of Australia’s national e-health infrastructure. The $466.7 million Budget go-ahead for our first Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record, along with pending legislation to introduce Healthcare Identifiers, demonstrate the commitment of the governments of Australia to reform the healthcare system.
The national Healthcare Identifiers [...]
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Filed under: Documentation, Forms Design, Funding, Government, Health, Information Technology, Records Management
Posted on June 9th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
Personal health records (PHRs) are an inevitable and critical step in the evolution of health information management (HIM). HIM professionals need to encourage patients to take an active role in monitoring their health and healthcare. The Personal Health Record assists practitioners in understanding current trends and processes in PHRs, assessing the PHR’s effect on health [...]
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Filed under: Health, Records Management
Posted on May 25th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
Health industry CIOs have a real opportunity to drive innovation and break down siloes of information in light of the federal government’s allocation of $467 million to electronic health records over the next two years.
Speaking at an AIIA CIO e-health forum in Sydney, CIO of St Vincent’s & Mater Health, Sydney, David Roffe, said one [...]
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Filed under: Information Technology, Management, Records Management
