Anticlue

Oh the power of a blog and a whistleblower disposition

I?ve been following the following story with a little bit of interest. A former employee of Kaiser Permanente has been accused of posting personal health information (PHI). The Diva of the disgruntled is retorting that she only posted a link to Kaiser?s website that had the material posted. The material apparently is training information with actual screen shots from Kaiser?s Health Connect product.

Every story has many interpretations. Have five people involved in a meeting and there will be five different interpretations. If anything at all comes out of this David and Goliath story, one lesson should be learned. For health care institutions all public web content needs to be approved by legal, marketing, and compliance. If it is medical specific, it should probably also be reviewed by a medical informatics director. The authorization step in web content publishing is important.