April 29th, 2008
Hospital or first-time doctor visits all start with the same clipboard. Use it to fill out sensitive personal information and scrawl a signature on...
April 29th, 2008
Sandee Pingatore was determined to find out why her son, Troy, 29, had died in a California hospital while being treated for a drug...
April 28th, 2008
When it comes to protecting the privacy of patients’ computerized information, the main threat the health-care industry faces isn’t from hackers, but from itself.
In...
April 28th, 2008
A proposed law would strip patients of their right to privacy. Pawlenty should veto it.
State health officials want full access to the DNA of...
April 28th, 2008
Deborah Peel, founder of Patient Privacy Rights, said the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, approved last week by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions...
April 27th, 2008
With a stroke of his pen, Gov. Ed Rendell created the Pennsylvania Health Information Exchange Governance Structure, which establishes the framework necessary to usher...
April 25th, 2008
A genetic nondiscrimination bill approved Thursday by a Senate panel won’t protect people from potentially losing their jobs or health insurance if the information...
April 21st, 2008
Contrary to popular belief, the ‘P’ in HIPAA does not stand for ‘privacy.’ Rather, HIPAA allows millions of healthcare businesses to snoop in our...
April 18th, 2008
In September 2004, Merck & Co. pulled its widely prescribed arthritis drug Vioxx off the market. The Food and Drug Administration followed with the...
April 18th, 2008
If Deborah Peel, M.D., has her way, there will be no national electronic health and medical record system without a guarantee of patient privacy...
