Clinic's medical files vanish

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Sun, 10/25/2009 - 22:20

At "Data Malpractice on T-Mobile Sidekick: But Don't Worry, Your Medical Data is Safe ", on Oct. 16 I wrote:

One of the promises made about healthcare IT is that your medical data is "safer" in electronic form than in paper form.

The Hurricane Katrina example of paper records being destroyed is often used as a poster example of the dangers of paper records.

However, the risk of electronic storage of information, especially the talk of national EMR's...


 

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