Source: Radio New Zealand
MyIndici said it hasn’t been compromised. 123rf
A Wellington GP clinic has stopped uploading consultation notes to patient portal MyIndici as an extra layer of protection for patients’ data.
MyIndici said it hasn’t been compromised, but there have been two high-profile security breaches involving health data at other companies in the past few months – ManageMyHealth, and then MediMap.
Newlands Medical Centre, in response to questions from RNZ, said: “Whilst we have no concerns re Indici security, we made a decision to discontinue open notes as an added layer of protection for the security of our patients’ data. We will not be providing any further comment.”
But Valentia Technologies, the company behind patient portal MyIndici and the associated practice management system Indici, said it had not experienced any breach or security issue.
A spokesperson said the ability to control access to patient notes at either a practice-wide or individual patient level had been a long-standing feature of the Indici system, and prior to the news of the ManageMyHealth breach, some GPs already had their systems set up so patients wouldn’t see their notes on the portal.
Has your GP stopped uploading notes to its patient portal? Email me on kate.green@rnz.co.nz
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