Keyose Blog - Personal Health Records

As reported in the spaniard newspaper El País, “Downloading music or movies from the job’s computer through a P2P software can have terrible and unexpected effects, produced by someone that could only want to get in its MP3 a song from David Bisbal [popular singer in Spain]. This kind of error has produced that 11.300 clinical records, 4.000 related with abortions, were exposed to any internet user. The computer illiteracy of a gynecological clinic’ worker could be the reason to allow the access to these files by eMule (the most popular peer to peer software), and so on giving access to the data stored in a folder of the hard disk to millions of people. It is not known who was guilty, or the reasons of the breach, but the Spaniard Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has sanctioned the Lasaitasuna clinical center in Bilbao with 150.000 euros.”
What could be the consequences of this kind of breach in a totally anonymous clinical records database?

Most people trust in the privacy of the medical records stored by the hospital. But as Britney Spears and Farrah Fawcett have learnt there is no 100% secure system even within your trusted hospital.

The med center fired more than a dozen employees and disciplined others, including six physicians, for unauthorized looks at Britney Spears’s medical records, the Los Angeles Times reported last month. Today, the paper reports a similar breach of privacy for Farrah Fawcett.

The Anonymous Personal Health Record could be a interesting tool for celebrities and for people with mental disorders.

As you can read in Keyose’s FAQ: Think about your health record at the hospital. You have no control over who accesses your data. It can be seen by doctors, nurses or clerks. Keyose offers you a better control over your health data; you can rest assured about that.