Qld Health adopts warehouse management system - warehouse management, tenders, queensland health. 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.
QH’s Shared Services Partner (SSP) agency, which supplies clinical consumables and as part of QH’s Supply Chain Management Integration Strategy (SCMIS) Project, will also benefit from the new system. SSP’s SAP-based enterprise materials management system, FAMMIS, outputs to manual paper-based order processing and control during the order lodgement process. Warning: HIPAA has teeth and will bite over healthcare privacy blunders. Network World - 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 While the audits don't represent attacks on the personally identifiable information (PII) the regulations are supposed to protect, they do expose non-compliant providers to the potential for heavy fines and reputation-damaging publicity. For instance, earlier this year Massachusetts General Hospital paid $1 million to settle a patient-privacy complaint with HHS due an employee leaving patient records in a subway car.
NHS trust sends data CD to landfill - Health News, Health & Families. 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. An undertaking signed by the trust's chief executive Ann Sutton read: "The Information Commissioner was provided with a report by the data controller informing that a filing cabinet containing personal data had been sent to landfill during a move of office premises.
"When planning the office move the security of the CD was considered and it was deemed appropriate to store it in the filing cabinet concerned. Electronic Health Records Face Many Insider Snoops - Healthcare - Security & Privacy. Doctor pays $40,000 fine for dumping 1,600 patients' medical rec. CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - A Charlotte doctor was forced to pay a hefty fine for dumping his patients' financial and medical information in the summer of 2010. WBTV first covered the story about Dr. Ervin Batchelor of the Carolina Center for Development and Rehabilitation in mid-June 2010. Now, Dr. Batchelor has paid $40,000 as a fine, according to a statement released by the NC Attorney General's Office. Earlier WBTV story: Medical records found at recycling center Batchelor owns and operates Carolina Center, a psychological testing and treatment facility located at 6813 Fairview Road Suite D in Charlotte.
His office illegally disposed of 1,000 patient files by dumping them at the West Mecklenburg Recycling Center in June of 2010. Officials said the files contained info for 1,600 people with data such as: names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, drivers' license numbers, insurance account numbers, and health information. Many of the records were from 2007-2009. New Data Spill Shows Risk of Online Health Records.