Regarding, “When Privacy Laws Do More Harm Than Good”

September 10th, 2007
Privacy forms the basis of liberty. The problem lies not with the laws but with those who fail to disclose needed information when required. Privacy...

Companies linking health factors to benefits

September 10th, 2007
First they tried nudging. Now companies are penalizing workers who have high health risks such as obesity and high blood pressure or cholesterol as...

Shhhhh! (10 Secrets the EHR Companies Don’t Want You to Know)

August 31st, 2007
Getting physicians to use an Electronic Health Record (EHR) is not an easy task. Getting them to fork over thousands of dollars for one...

Scrap the national IT plan … and do it right instead!

August 30th, 2007
In a recent editorial , Modern Healthcare argues that the current national health information technology (IT) efforts should be abandoned since they can’t succeed...

RTI public comment period ‘a sham’: reader

August 29th, 2007
The public comment period made available by RTI International is a sham. Who in the public would ever know that the study had been...

IMS Health, Wolters Kluwer Health and Verispan Challenge State Laws Restricting Access to Critical Healthcare Information

August 29th, 2007
With the goal of maintaining greater transparency and the free flow of information in the nation’s healthcare system, three leading health information companies IMS...

13 Million Grant for AHIC Successor

August 26th, 2007
T he Department of Health and Human Services has announced a grant of up to $13 million will be awarded for the design, creation and...

Health on the job

August 26th, 2007
Dr. David French has diagnosed gallstones, acute renal failure and congestive heart disease. He has also prescribed antibiotics for an infected cuticle, treated poison...

Vendors, privacy activists speak out on report

August 24th, 2007
The RTI International recommendations got split reviews from Don Schoen, president and chief executive officer of MediNotes, a West Des Moines, Iowa, developer of...

What is the Most Important Feature of a Payer-Offered Electronic Health Record?

August 24th, 2007
Nearly nine out of 10 survey respondents said that electronic health records offered by health insurers should have appropriate privacy and security features, according...