Senate and industry leaders push stagnant HIT bill
April 3rd, 2008
Senate and industry leaders met on Capitol Hill Wednesday to push a healthcare IT bill that came close to passing by special vote last...
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Centers Tap Into Personal Databases: State Groups Were Formed After 9/11
April 2nd, 2008
- Intelligence centers run by states across the country have access to personal information about millions of Americans, including unlisted cellphone numbers, insurance claims,...
Patient Tsar backs tougher data theft laws
April 2nd, 2008
The chair of the Department of Health’s National Information Governance Board, and influential patient representative, Harry Cayton, has joined the Information Commissioner in calling...
Military health forum envisions clinical analytics — by Peter Buxbaum
April 2nd, 2008
David Winn is right, when you sign up for the military, you have to do whatever they say.
The problem is that the Administration and...
Military health forum envisions clinical analytics
April 1st, 2008
Government medical care providers should be able to retrieve useful treatment analytics from clinical data repositories, the better to assess the health care to...
Peel on Perlegen
April 1st, 2008
An EMR vendor (whose name is kept secret) profits from secret access to Americans’ health information and the patients don’t know their health information...
Electronic Health Records wired for abuse
March 29th, 2008
“Oops! They did it to Britney again.” No, it’s not a song parody, but a reflection of the poor state of American health privacy...
Electronic Health Records wired for abuse
March 29th, 2008
“Oops! They did it to Britney again.” No, it’s not a song parody, but a reflection of the poor state of American health privacy...
EHRs: Certification doesn’t mean much to most small practices
March 28th, 2008
Certifying EHRs is supposed to help doctors pick the best products. But small medical practices generally don’t put much stock in this stamp of...
National health records network to hook up with Google, Microsoft
March 27th, 2008
The federal office in charge of creating a national network of electronic health records plans to integrate the system with the health care databases...