Editorial: Scrap the national IT plan
July 12th, 2007
It should be clear by now that unless the federal government mandates a single healthcare information technology platform for all healthcare providers and heavily...
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Legislation calls for healthcare IT trusts
July 11th, 2007
A bill introduced in the House today would create healthcare information technology trusts. Rep. Dennis Moore, a Democrat who represents the Third District in...
Exclusive: Major E-Health Records Project Unravels Into Legal Battle
July 11th, 2007
Electronic health systems are supposed to help improve health care. But apparently, if you’re involved with a big project to build an e-health records...
Unions riled by background checks
July 9th, 2007
A GSA union says it will file an unfair labor practice complaint about HSPD-12 program Some federal-employee unions are uneasy about mandatory background checks...
Microsoft and Yahoo to alter privacy policy
July 6th, 2007
Yahoo and Microsoft are preparing to announce concessions in their privacy policies in the next few weeks, as pressure mounts in Europe over the...
New Dem of the Week: Sheldon Whitehouse
July 5th, 2007
Soaring costs are pushing health care beyond the reach of many ordinary Americans. The typical family health insurance policy now costs more than a...
PHRs: Promise vs. Problems
July 5th, 2007
The US government is pressing to convert the nation’s health care system to electronic health records, wiring all our personal health records (PHRs) together...
Patient control a must
July 1st, 2007
It’s really atrocious that these three organizations would even consider supporting HIT legislation without patient control of access to...
AMA says human RFID tags could pose serious privacy risk
June 28th, 2007
RFID tags operate over short distances to provide a scanner with basic information about whatever item they’re attached to. This is being used commercially...
Health IT bill headed for Senate action
June 28th, 2007
The Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has passed the Wired for Health Care Quality Act, which promises to modernize health care by...