July 6th, 2008
Medicaid patients’ medical records are going online in South Carolina so that people providing treatment have easier access to the information they need to...
July 4th, 2008
Role-based access controls do not protect privacy. The longstanding definition of privacy in American and international law is that ‘privacy’ means the individual’s right...
July 3rd, 2008
Failure to adequately secure electronic medical records could result in a court hearing or even criminal charges, warns the Medical and Dental Defence Union...
July 1st, 2008
Medical identity theft accounts for 3 percent of identity theft crimes, or 249,000 of the estimated 8.3 million people who had their identities stolen...
June 30th, 2008
Businesses, governments and universities reported a record number of data breaches in the first half of this year, a 69 percent increase over the...
June 30th, 2008
An old name in retail was hit by a modern scourge — a hack of its customers’ credit card numbers — but didn’t inform...
June 27th, 2008
Privacy concerns could present a significant psychological barrier to individuals signing up for personal health records while a sizable majority of the public wants...
June 26th, 2008
Regulators are cracking down on companies that sell genetic tests directly to consumers, threatening to crimp the growth of one of the hottest sectors...
June 25th, 2008
Americans worried medical secrets in new databases will be misused Washington, DC Today, lawmakers will be making decisions about the future of patients’ medical...
June 25th, 2008
U.S. Reps. John Dingell (D-Mich. ) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) introduced Tuesday legislation aimed at encouraging speedier adoption of healthcare information technology while also...
