August 11th, 2008
A rule book used by the federally supported Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology to test electronic health-record systems and the policy manual of...
August 8th, 2008
GP calls on government to ditch plans for a single NHS database. The NHS could be forced to completely rethink its £6 billion patient...
August 7th, 2008
A solid majority of patients say they want doctors to move to an all-electronic format for medical records and prescriptions, saying that by doing...
August 7th, 2008
‘Total files’ of patients, many with HIV and AIDS, missing
A low-level Harris County Hospital District administrator probably violated federal law when she downloaded medical...
August 6th, 2008
This is powerful story because the expert quoted points out that most organizations do not bother to account for lost or stolen equipment that...
August 6th, 2008
Verified Identity Pass (Clear), a firm that specializes in keeping fliers sensitive personal information secure, doesn’t encrypt data and had a laptop stolen. Do...
August 6th, 2008
A federal court has given the green light to a civil rights lawsuit filed by Rutherford Institute attorneys in defense of a 15-year-old Indiana...
August 6th, 2008
Employees of Sparrow Hospital were fired or disciplined in July after it was discovered they attempted to access computerized medical information about Gov. Jennifer...
August 6th, 2008
Yesterday, The Washington Post featured an article describing what the authors called “a powerful new tool for evaluating whether to cover individual consumers: a...
August 6th, 2008
Researchers working at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System didn’t follow rules governing human experimentation, including not telling those in a surgery trial about...
