MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'data security'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:58:35 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2865811&cid=t_115427_125_f&fid=34820&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dentalblogs.com%2Farchives%2Fadministrator%2Fis-your-data-safe-5-tips-for-data-security-in-your-dental-practice%25e2%2580%25a6%2F Protecting patient data is a critical part of the modern dental practice – especially in light of HIPAA requirements. How does this translate into daily operations at your practice? Tom Terronez of Medix Dental has put together some tips to make sure you are doing all you can to protect your patient’s data… 1. Are you emailing patient information and digital x-rays to other doctors? Make sure that your office and the receiving office utilize encrypted email services. If you don’t, your data can easily be read on its path from your practice to theirs. HIPAA states that you are responsible for making a reasonable attempt at protecting your data. 2. Do you have a wireless router in your office? If you are using wireless Internet for internal purposes, make sure your router is a curren... dental blog for dentists about dentistry blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2865811 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:42:53 +0100 2865811 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2389916&cid=t_115427_109_f&fid=34795&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoloshrink.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fanother-electronic-medical-record.html I have harped on the topics of the potentially disastrous consequences of data loss or theft from medical health database repositories for some time now. I have personally been the victim of such a data loss by the Veteran's Health Administration, which lost all my provider information, financial account and license numbers, social security and business banking numbers, addresses, and all the other personal information to make identity theft a breeze. Nothing awful happened as a result of this loss. I was given a year's free three bureau credit monitoring subscription by the VHA. It is my personal belief that one of their less experienced employees or interns had simply carried the information for a service provider demographic study offsite on a thumb drive to work on it at home and lost... Solo Shrink blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2389916 Thu, 07 May 2009 05:37:00 +0100 2389916 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2107674&cid=t_115427_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F01%2Fgoing-public-with-gonorrhoea.html Guido reminds us to pay tribute to the late, great Patrick McGoohan but obviously has not yet noticed a “little bit of news” that almosts slips by in a side column of page 4 of today’s Times:Personal data gathered by one government department will be available to other areas of Whitehall, local government and agencies under proposed legislation published yesterday. This will open the way for the bulk sharing of information across government, and reverses existing policy, in which data can only be used for the purpose for which it was gathered. Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, defended the proposal, saying that it was intended to improve public services and help to fight crime.Opponents said that it was a further step towards a “Big Brother” state and that the Government had a p... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2107674 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:01:00 +0100 2107674 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=572572&cid=t_115427_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F04%2Fmtas-what-next.html It is, I suppose some sort of journalistic coup that, shortly after Dr Crippen phoned Mike Clement, the MTAS Project Manager at the DoH, the decision was taken to close down the MTAS site.There was no alternative.Today's news, revealed in NHS BLOG DOCTOR, that it was possible for doctors to access each other's applications and personal information by simply inputting a random number was a gross breach of data security. The MTAS site had to be closed to protect that information, to protect the doctors.A lesser concern, but still an important one, is that this breach of data security may result in a criminal prosecution against the MTAS administrators. Maybe even against the blessed Patricia herself.And now a trivial matter. Or a matter that seems consistently to be treated as trivial by the... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=572572 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:19:00 +0100 572572