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Qld Health adopts warehouse management system - warehouse management, tenders, queensland health - Computerworld
Queensland Health (QH) is to implement a new warehouse management system at its Central Pharmacy (CP) business unit to improve the efficiency of delivering pharmaceuticals and dental products to all QH hospitals and clinics. The agency currently uses the enterprise-wide pharmacy software system iPharmacy, supplied and maintained by iSoft to connect all QH pharmacy departments with CP. According to Queensland Health, all processes within the CP warehouse are completely paper-based where automation ends at the release of a picking list. Dental products also rely on the Pronto application for managing stock order processes.Healthcare organizations that are performing risk assessments as a way to craft patient-privacy policies might want to consider a new potential attack vector: federal regulators. Later this year, the Department of Health and Human Services is expected to start auditing up to 150 health providers at random through December 2012 in an effort to find medical entities that fail to comply with HIPAA and HITECH regulations about how personal data must be handled securely. IN THE NEWS: Stanford Hospital investigating patient data leak
Warning: HIPAA has teeth and will bite over healthcare privacy blunders
The Eastern and Coastal Kent Primary Care Trust put the CD, which contained the name, address, date of birth, NHS number and GP of about 1.6 million people, in a filing cabinet during an office move. But no one told staff who sent the cabinet to the landfill site and it has not been recovered, the Information Commissioner's Office said. The trust said it would now take action to bring in clear policies and procedures for when moving office, improve staff training and boost security against unauthorised and unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage of personal records.
NHS trust sends data CD to landfill - Health News, Health & Families - The Independent
Student at Manchester hospital lost patient details - ICO news release
News release: 7 September 2011 The University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust breached the Data Protection Act by losing sensitive personal information relating to the treatment of 87 patients, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The information was lost after a medical student – who had been on a placement at the hospital’s Burns and Plastics Department – copied data onto a personal, unencrypted memory stick for research purposes. The memory stick was then lost by the student during a subsequent placement in December last year. The ICO’s investigation uncovered that the hospital had assumed that the student had received data protection training at medical school and therefore did not provide them with the induction training given to their own staff. The hospital has now agreed to take significant steps to ensure that the personal information accessed by students working at the hospital is kept secure.More than 70% of healthcare organizations reported a breach of personal health information (PHI) over the past 12 months, according to a recent survey. The majority of breaches were committed by employees, with 35% snooping into medical records of fellow employees and 27% accessing records of friends and relatives. The survey of 90 healthcare IT managers was conducted by Veriphyr, a Los Altos, Calif., based provider of identity and access intelligence solutions. It also found that 30% of breaches were detected in one to three days, 12% were discovered in one week, and 17% were uncovered during a period of two to four weeks. According to Alan Norquist, CEO of Veriphyr, what surprised him the most about the report, Veriphyr's 2011 Survey of Patient Privacy Breaches, was the number of breaches committed by employees.
Electronic Health Records Face Many Insider Snoops - Healthcare - Security & Privacy - Informationweek
