December 31st, 2007
Practice Fusion, a company that provides free online electronic health records to physicians, announced last week it will partner with Physician Services,...
December 31st, 2007
Practice Fusion, a company that provides free online electronic health records to physicians, announced last week it will partner with Physician Services, Inc. (PSI)...
December 28th, 2007
Each year since 1997, the US-based Electronic Privacy Information Center and the UK-based Privacy International have undertaken what has now become the most comprehensive...
December 21st, 2007
Federal efforts to advance healthcare IT will have to be made on half the amount President Bush hoped to get for next year.
In a...
December 13th, 2007
A bill to regulate pharmaceutical sales representatives was approved 7-6 on first reading by the District of Columbia Council on Dec. 11.
The bill, said...
December 11th, 2007
Electronic clinical data exchange across the United States is far from a reality, with few organizations facilitating such exchange and many failing in the...
December 10th, 2007
An attempt to quickly pass a Senate health information technology bill was derailed after medical groups raised concerns about its quality measurement, patient privacy...
December 10th, 2007
Will privacy sell? Ask.com is betting it will. The fourth-largest search engine company will begin a service today called AskEraser, which allows users to...
December 7th, 2007
In response to Joseph Conn’s “Data-miners unite in Maine to block ‘opt-out’ Rx law”: As a fourth-year medical student, I find it quite troubling...
December 6th, 2007
Yesterday, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg publicly apologized about the social network’s poorly implemented, privacy-invading Beacon ad program, which broadcast users’ off-Facebook activity in news...
