August 5th, 2008
Even after UCLA Medical Center warned employees that it was cracking down on unauthorized access to medical records, the privacy of a “well-known individual”...
August 5th, 2008
The Transportation Security Administration suspended Verified Identity Pass from enrolling travelers in its pre-screening program after a laptop computer containing the records of 33,000...
August 5th, 2008
Pop chanteuse Joni Mitchell famously sang, “You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone,” but at the Veterans Affairs Department–according to the Government...
August 4th, 2008
Should your medical records be protected from prying eyes? Huge majorities of Americans think so.
According to a Gallup Poll, 92 percent of Americans oppose...
August 4th, 2008
Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) have threatened to block a floor vote on a bill (S 1693) that would create a...
August 4th, 2008
Poor system testing caused a medical records privacy breach affecting over 200,000 members of Georgia Blue Cross and Blue Shield. The case has implications...
August 4th, 2008
Lawmakers and witnesses at a House Committee on Small Business hearing on Thursday discussed various barriers, such as high costs and privacy concerns, to...
August 4th, 2008
Health and life insurance companies have access to a powerful new tool for evaluating whether to cover individual consumers: a health “credit report” drawn...
August 2nd, 2008
It’s surprisingly easy for a patient in Florida to get numerous prescriptions of the same drug filled, sometimes in the same day.
Florida is among...
August 1st, 2008
In spite of recent legislation, tougher laws are needed to prevent insurers and employers from discriminating on the basis of genetic tests
Genetic testing will...
