As Patient Records Are Digitized, Data Breaches Are on the Rise. So began a nightmare that cost Mr.
Tripathi’s small nonprofit health consultancy nearly $300,000 in legal, private investigation, credit monitoring and media consultancy fees. Not to mention 600 hours dealing with the fallout and the intangible cost of repairing the reputational damage that followed. Mr. 'Prevent viewing of NHS patient identifiable data outside the UK. ID in the News» Blog Archive » Selling our NHS data is not putting us in control of our health records.
UK Government squares up to privacy campaigners over health data. Back in September the government declared that it was scrapping the hugely expensive centralised database system for health data inaugurated by the previous government and dubbed the ‘Spine’.
At the time it stated, “it is no longer appropriate for a centralised authority to make decisions on behalf of local organizations,” adding that it would “explore ways to stimulate a marketplace that will no longer exclude small and medium sized companies from participating in significant government healthcare projects.” Today prime minister David Cameron announces two particularly pertinent new proposals: that all patients should be able to access their personal records online, which will require some form of centralized storage system even if no longer the Spine that anonymised health data should be available to the life science industry (including health researchers, and pharmaceutical companies) The details of the new scheme are yet to emerge, but already the backlash is apparent.