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Defenestration – ever hear that word? It means killing somebody by throwing them out a window. Can you imagine an action movie called “ The Defenestrator!” OK, that’s a joke, but your privacy is being defenestrated…and that’s no joke. The medical community all over the country has been working hard to convert all their records from paperwork to digital, and in dealing with an immense mass of data, all too many hospitals, HMOs and
physician groups have neglected to install privacy safeguards.