HealthLeaders Media
“In the nationwide, government-backed push to improve access to healthcare data, one problem persists—how best to share massive radiology imaging files. Existing solutions aren’t perfect, which is why researchers are looking for simpler and more cost-efficient ways to share images.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Something as seemingly innocuous as sharing music files on online networks could be putting patient data at risk.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Many home computer users don’t realize it, but the next time they download a movie, a video or some old sentimental song, they may be giving an intruder the opportunity to search the PC’s files for sensitive information, including their health records, a new study finds.
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Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers
“Physicians that use file sharing software can inadvertently expose their patients’ health and financial information, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Doctors who use file sharing software could be putting their patients’ medical information at risk, says a recent study.
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El Emam, Khaled et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 17(2)
Objective
There has been a consistent concern about the inadvertent disclosure of personal information through peer-to-peer file sharing applications, such as Limewire and Morpheus. Examples of personal health and financial information being exposed have been published. We wanted to estimate the extent to which personal health information (PHI) is being disclosed in this way, and compare that to the extent of disclosure of personal financial information (PFI).
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