May 6th, 2008
Protecting privacy is foundational to electronic health records and healthcare information exchange. In 2007, the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel specified the technical standards...
May 4th, 2008
The clash between a doctor’s ethical responsibility not to disclose patient confidences and the state’s strong interest in investigating allegations of physician misconduct will...
May 2nd, 2008
Information on thousands of UCSF patients was accessible on the Internet for more than three months last year, a possible violation of federal privacy...
May 2nd, 2008
The House passed the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act Thursday, joining the Senate in approving a bill more than 10 years in the making.
The bill,...
May 2nd, 2008
St. Jude Medical and Microsoft collaborate to provide patients and physicians with better access to health records.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — St. Jude Medical, Inc....
May 1st, 2008
“While authors of the recently passed Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (H.R. 493) had good intentions, the bill inadvertently legalizes the sharing of...
May 1st, 2008
The Sun’s article on the Senate’s vote to bar discrimination based on the results of genetic testing (“Measure would bar use of information by...
May 1st, 2008
The incomes of every Italian citizen were published on the web without any prior warning by the government, just days before it was due...
May 1st, 2008
A panel of cutting edge experts on healthcare and genetics duked it out at Wednesday’s Bio-IT World’s Sixth Annual Conference over the potential benefits...
May 1st, 2008
Privacy issues are dominating the airwaves as the industry begins to deal with the EMR data-mining minefield
It seems you can’t pick up a newspaper...
