Doctors may be accidentally swapping patient files on music sharing programs — study

Doctors who trade music on file sharing programs might also unknowingly be swapping their patient records according to a study by researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. The study says software installed on home computers can make health and financial documents vulnerable to fraud or theft. … Hospital cuts and the e-Health scandal have been the focus of debate in the upcoming Ottawa West-Nepean byelection. PC leader Tim Hudak held a press conference calling this “a time of crisis in Ottawa’s health care system,” suggesting the McGuinty government should recover millions paid in untendered contracts and redirect it to cash-strapped Ottawa hospitals, according to the Ottawa Citizen. Liberal candidate Bob Chiarelli fired back that Hudak had helped wield the knife that cut health services in the region during the Harris government. “As a leading member of the common sense revolution, he fired nurses, he closed the Grace hospital, he closed the Riverdale and he tried to close the Montfort,” Chiarelli told the newspaper. … On Tuesday a Coroner’s Inquest was called into the death of 18-year-old Reilly Anzovino who was killed in a Niagara-area automobile accident December 27^th. Various groups, including the Ontario Federation of Labour, had been calling for the inquest following the closure of the Fort Erie and Port Colborne Hospital emergency rooms. … Don’t miss a single posting on Diablogue – sign up at right for updates whenver a new post goes up!