December 5th, 2007
A consortium of nine companies in the health-care industry are banding together to create a set of security practices to better protect the information...
December 4th, 2007
Most politicians support measures like so-called “prescription monitoring programs” mindlessly, figuring that if allowing the government access to medical records of scummy drug addicts...
December 4th, 2007
Not surprisingly, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, the Chicago-based trade group for healthcare information technology developers and users, supports the call yesterday...
December 4th, 2007
Physicians Think They Should Report Errors and Incompetence — but Say They Often Do Not
Physicians are among the most trusted professionals in America, but...
December 4th, 2007
Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt urged Congress yesterday to include a requirement for doctors to use electronic health records as part...
December 3rd, 2007
Americans believe in the benefits of electronic medical records and think they outweigh the privacy risks. The risks may still be too high though.
Widespread...
December 1st, 2007
They dominated the headlines and made bold announcements that created huge impacts in the healthcare industry and across America.
Marquee names topped the results in...
November 30th, 2007
The authors of the Netflix de-anonymization study contacted me to point out that they originally published a draft of their results a mere two...
November 27th, 2007
The good news is that a company hired to manage prescription-drug bills for the state government has stopped selling information about state...
November 22nd, 2007
We present a new class of statistical de-anonymization attacks against high-dimensional micro-data, such as individual preferences, recommendations, transaction records and so on. Our techniques...
