Report from HIMSS: Laptops and mobile communications devices create security nightmare

April 7, 2009 Diagnostic Imaging. Report from HIMSS: Laptops and mobile communications devices create security nightmare By Greg Freiherr Procedures to ensure patient privacy don't do much if the patient data end up on portable electronics. This happens more commonly than might be expected, according to a survey reported at the 2009 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society meeting in Chicago. Credant Technologies, a Dallas-based firm specializing in data protection solutions, conducted a survey of more than 1000 healthcare professionals in the U.S. and U.K. that indicates that more than one-third unwittingly put personal information at risk. They are storing patient records, medical images, contact details, corporate data, and other sensitive information on laptops, BlackBerrys, and universal serial bus sticks that are not adequately secured.

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