THERE IS NO REASON TO CARRY AROUND ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS, ESPECIALLY NOT IN BULK.
Many stories have been published about breaches in EHR security, hospitals hacked, USB sticks lost, laptops stolen. During the almost 3 years that I am maintaining this news page I did not pay much attention to it as I am convinced that security problems during the paper days were more frequent and much more common. Files got lost in the mail, were found in dumping places, were accessible to anyone with a key to the storage room (if locked at all or in a storage room, for that matter).
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC, 30 August 2009
