12:59 Protection of medical data applicable if the U S experience for Russia | |
| The most important and requires careful protection of personal data is information on health status, medical history, details of heredity and other medical data. This information can easily be used to harm humans. The first example that comes to mind - in situations with an inheritance. Knowing the weaknesses in human health is easy to arrange it "estesstvenno" premature death. Also happens to history when it became aware of the disease, the head of the company and its shares immediately fell in price. What to say about everyday situations where, for example, due to the knowledge of nehoroshey heredity may break marriages, people do not want to hire, etc. And anyway, who would be pleased if colleagues know that in fifth grade he had the worms, as the institute - scabies. That's why ISPDn that deals with medical data related to the first class, which requires the highest level of protection. In the U.S. on this issue worked out and adopted a separate law on the Protection of Personal Medical data. As a result, the administration of the State of California for the last 5 months has received over 800 reports about leaks of confidential data in the health sector, after January 1, 2009 came into force a new law on mandatory reporting of victims of the leak of their personal data. That is, under this law, health care organizations are obliged to inform the California State Department of Health about cases of deliberate or accidental release of personal information of their patients. In other words convey to themselves. The Department does not expect such a message flow in such a short period, and suspect that they will be more, according to Journal of the American Association of handling medical information. Also have been reported and complaints of patients clinics. Officials conducted a full investigation of 166 cases and 122 of them confirmed the leak. Most leaks unintentional, but sometimes a direct monitoring of the patients. According to the Journal, the administration may impose a penalty on organizations or individuals of up to $ 250,000 for breach of security, depending on the situation and the size of the damage. Medical Center «Kaiser Permanente Bellflower», located in Los Angeles - the first from the penalty on that amount after it emerged that 23 staff the center, without authority, searched the medical records of patients Nadi Suleman. 34-year-old Suleman, a single mother, gained notoriety this year after giving birth to eight children at once. From the hospital was dismissed 15 employees, the other 8 persons were punished by disciplinary. But for the state administration that was not enough. In May, the Center was fined after being found negligent attitude towards the protection of patient information. Guidance Center only informed the employees about the inadmissibility of unauthorized access, but little has been done to be able to control such access. American actress Farah Fausett, who died two weeks ago, also sent a complaint to the state administration, accusing this medical center to provide information about its reporter, National Enquirer. Law on Personal Data Protection was adopted in California in July 2003. In accordance with the law, all organizations providing commercial services, are obliged to inform their customers in case of leakage of personal data, such as name, social security numbers or credit card numbers. The law has helped to reveal the vulnerability of data protection and prompted other states to follow suit. The new law on protection of personal medical data of California - the first in the United States, its view and other states. However, health workers, naturally, did not like the strictness of the law. Nikolai Fedotov, a senior analyst InfoWatch: «Specialist IB with the Russian experience affects this message is this. Despite threatening fines, management clinics together rushed to inform the authorities about its leaks. Not about other people, mind you, but on their own, in which it has itself to blame if not directly then indirectly. Judging by the number of reports, no one was concealing incidents. Let's imagine that it would be in Russian clinics, if imposed a similar obligation. How many penitential notifications sent to doctors in the Health Ministry? Correctly. But why? Who said the "mentality"? You would still "passionarnost" remembered! Being determines consciousness, not vice versa. The point is the following. The Russian institutions (not just health) there is no mechanism that makes withholding unfavorable incidents. But the Americans have created such a mechanism. And it works for everyone, without exception, their employees health facilities - and the Chinese and Indians, and Slaves. The mechanism is simple to outrageous: if at myself not donesesh, certainly donesut others, and will be worse. To learn from experience and to introduce a similar notice of leaks can be. But you must first build a similar system to promote universal stukachestva. Without this law will not be executed. " The text materials used InfoWatch. | |
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