June 12th, 2008
A stamp of approval from the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) is not enough to guarantee that electronic health records can provide...
June 11th, 2008
University of Utah Hospital and Clinics patients are bracing for the unknown as police and prosecutors investigate the theft of 2.2 million billing records...
June 11th, 2008
Privacy concerns have been raised about a bill moving through the California Legislature that would let pharmacies partner with drugmakers to send reminder letters...
June 9th, 2008
In a time where reality television is now the norm, rather than the exception, privacy is a rare commodity. We want to know everything...
June 8th, 2008
A world-renowned Harvard child psychiatrist whose work has helped fuel an explosion in the use of powerful antipsychotic medicines in children earned at least...
June 6th, 2008
The chance of downloading malicious code from a Web site has increased 41 percent in the past year, according to a recent study of...
June 5th, 2008
Imagine my surprise when, in the course of doing research for this story, I stumbled upon my own personal health information online.
There it was...
June 5th, 2008
A computer security breach at a health insurance company was responsible for an identity theft at UC Irvine that affected 1,132 students, and led...
June 4th, 2008
Dr. Deborah Peel, founder and chair of Patient Privacy Rights and leader of the bipartisan Coalition for Patient Privacy testifies today before the House...
June 2nd, 2008
A bill aimed at pushing the health care industry toward conversion to electronic records seemed to gain new life three weeks ago, after a...
