February 25th, 2005
The Social Security numbers of millions of Americans, including Vice President Cheney and celebrity heiress Paris Hilton, are available to many subscribers of a...
February 23rd, 2005
INTRODUCTION
Good morning. My name is Alan Westin. I am Professor of Public Law & Government Emeritus, Columbia University, and Director of the Program...
February 23rd, 2005
February 23, 2005//Hackensack, NJ:U.S. adults are divided right down the middle on whether the potential privacy risks associated with a patient electronic medical record...
February 17th, 2005
Representative Edward J. Markey, who has been touting a bill to keep thousands of data-entry jobs generated by healthcare companies from going overseas, ran...
February 16th, 2005
In November voters passed Proposition 69, requiring all felons to submit DNA to a statewide database. Two months later, Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies...
February 14th, 2005
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott ruled Friday that the state’s public information law takes precedence over a far-reaching federal medical privacy law, a legal...
February 14th, 2005
Kansas officials want doctors to report any sexual activity by someone younger than 16 as sexual abuse, a requirement that physicians say would harm...
February 10th, 2005
As Reported By Senate Committee On:
Health & Long-Term Care, February 10, 2005
Title: An act relating to making certain provisions in the uniform health care...
February 10th, 2005
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20201
Dear Secretary Leavitt:
The undersigned members of the more than 100 health care organizations that make up...
February 9th, 2005
Federal regulations that took effect two years ago have made it harder for people to keep their medical files private, a lawyer for a...
