May 16th, 2008
Iowa helps guide the nation in selecting a president. Now, it can set an example for the country by establishing high standards for protecting...
May 15th, 2008
Health information technology legislation could move forward by Memorial Day after key lawmakers agreed to a series of changes meant to strengthen privacy and...
May 15th, 2008
Charter Communications is planning to monitor its customers’ Web surfing and then, anonymously, display relevant advertisements.
What the third-largest U.S. cable operator, headquartered in St....
May 13th, 2008
The Coalition for Patient Privacy and 25 of its member organizations are asking Congress not to pass an e-prescribing mandate unless it includes provisions...
May 13th, 2008
The San Antonio Metropolitan Health District has established a city-based registry to more closely monitor the south Texas city’s “diabetes epidemic” and initiate improvements...
May 12th, 2008
The state links 14 people affiliated with the medical center to the improper viewing of celebrities’ files.
California health regulators have connected 14 more people...
May 11th, 2008
As Tighter Immigration Policies Strain Federal Agencies, The Detainees in Their Care Often Pay a Heavy Cost
Near midnight on a California spring night, armed...
May 8th, 2008
Web firm Finjan discovered a “crimeserver” in Malaysia with more than 1.4GB of stolen data that had been amassed in just three weeks.
Even more...
May 6th, 2008
Experts warn some results may not be useful — and others are ‘rubbish’.
WASHINGTON – Everyone’s genes spell out a risk for some disease, and a...
May 6th, 2008
To overcome elusive ROI figures on electronic medical record projects, vendors have been touting the value of digitized data for secondary uses such as...
