Medical Records Found on Memory Stick
An incident in which a Cheshire estate agent found a memory stick she had bought contained confidential clinical records has highlighted the NHS’s failure to implement effective encryption services to protect patient information. Bolton Royal Hospitals NHS Trust has launched an investigation into how confidential medical records for 13 cancer patients were contained on a […]
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Lockheed Martin To Build Canadian Forces Health System
Lockheed Martin has won a CAN$17m (£6.8m) contract to build an advanced healthcare information system for the Canadian Forces. The Canadian Forces Health Information System (CFHIS) will ensure that health information about the forces’ personnel is collected accurately and securely and made available to authorised users wherever the service men and women are in Canada […]
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GP Pathology Messaging Contracts Under Negotiation
A central procurement process has started to ensure that GPs have the right software to handle online pathology reports and results, the NHS Information Authority announced this week. The roll out of online pathology messaging is due to be completed by the target date of December 2002. The service – the first national system to […]
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PKI Token System Adopted for Australian Health System
The Australian Health Insurance Commission has awarded a contract to Rainbow eSecurity, a provider of transaction security solutions, to provide Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)-based Internet security systems to be deployed across the Australian healthcare system. The introduction of reliable, secure confidential electronic communications will enable confidential patient information and data to be exchanged electronically, providing a […]
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