California Hospital Faces Sanctions After Workers Wrongly Looked at Patient Records

April 8th, 2008
The private records of more than 60 patients, including the actress Farrah Fawcett and the state’s first lady, Maria Shriver, were improperly viewed by...

More Snooping Into UCLA Medical Records

April 7th, 2008
California first lady Maria Shriver is among more than 30 celebrities and other high-profile patients who had their confidential records breached at UCLA Medical...

Selling the bitter EMR pill (HIMSS meeting)

April 7th, 2008
A few days after the University of California Medical Center in Irvine went live with its new electronic medical record system, a letter arrived...

Governor says his medical records were accessed, too

April 7th, 2008
The governor says unauthorized people have looked at his hospital files, just as someone at UCLA examined the records of his wife, Maria Shriver....

The Already Big Thing on the Internet: Spying on Users

April 5th, 2008
In 1993, the dawn of the Internet age, the liberating anonymity of the online world was captured in a well-known New Yorker cartoon. One...

Fawcett’s cancer file breached

April 3rd, 2008
The incident occurred months before UCLA hospital employees were caught snooping in Britney Spears’ files. Months before UCLA Medical Center caught staffers snooping in the...

Barton health records stolen and he’s ticked

April 3rd, 2008
Rep. Joe Barton revealed Thursday that he is one the heart patients whose medical records were on an unencrypted laptop stolen from a National...

Rep. Barton Seeks Probe In Theft of Computer: Energy Panel Member Says His Medical Data Were in Stolen Laptop

April 3rd, 2008
Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), the ranking minority member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, revealed yesterday that he is among the approximately 3,000...

Sponsors seek to move on health IT bill

April 3rd, 2008
The leaders of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee joined representatives of the Business Roundtable in calling once again for passage of...

Privacy advocate’s health data is stolen: Lawmaker’s medical records nabbed along with government laptop

April 3rd, 2008
f there’s one person whose medical records you wouldn’t want to lose track of, it’s the co-chairman of the congressional caucus that focuses on...