May 15th, 2007
(Part two of a two-part series) Psychiatrist Deborah Peel has become an outspoken advocate for patient privacy rights, founding the Austin, Texas-based not-for-profit Patient...
May 14th, 2007
The telephone rang as Deborah Peel was driving to the airport outside Austin, Texas, a few weeks ago. It was one of several long-distance...
May 11th, 2007
The medical testing arm of pharmaceutical giant Roche has exposed the personal and medical details of UK customers on its website. The firm has...
May 11th, 2007
The third shoe has dropped in giving hospitals federal blessing to subsidize the cost of providing electronic health records systems software and technical support...
May 9th, 2007
Imagine going to your bank’s Web site and being able to pick a doctor, schedule an office visit, check lab results or pay a...
May 4th, 2007
The biggest known theft of credit-card numbers in history began two summers ago outside a Marshalls discount clothing store near St. Paul, Minn. There,...
May 1st, 2007
n the last few weeks we have had a number of reminders that management of the privacy of patient records remains a contentious and...
May 1st, 2007
(In response to Joseph Conn’s “AHIC reviews, sends back EHR recommendations”) The American Health Information Community does not recognize that most physicians choose not...
April 30th, 2007
A federal judge on Monday struck down New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation law that makes doctors’ prescription-writing habits confidential, saying it violates the First Amendment. Drug...
April 29th, 2007
Maine wants to ban the data mining and sale of identifiable prescription records to drug companies. It’s about time. But marketing to doctors is...
