April 26, 2012, 7:10 AM — Nothing like a little morbid humor from a life coach.
But given the difficulty of securing Personal Health Information (PHI) in the digital age, Anthony Centore, founder of the Virginia-based counseling and life-coaching firm Thriveworks, sounds like he could use a little counseling himself.
On the Thriveworks website, he has posted a lament titled, "Counselors are Doomed: Client Privacy and PHI in the Electronic Age," with a depressingly familiar list of reasons why those charged with protecting the personal information of their clients are in an almost impossible situation.
His list -- with each item beginning with, "We are doomed because &" -- is familiar to those in the data security business:
