Grab for patient records
May 19th, 2009
MEDICAL market research firm AsteRx plans a grab for doctors’ prescribing records with an offer of powerful business intelligence software free to GPs who...
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Data-mining: Australia Just Calls It Something Else
May 19th, 2009
In Australia, the data mining industry pays doctors to sell patients’ prescription records. In the US they pay pharmacies, hospitals, and PBMs. See Article.
A complaint...
HIMSS & Who is Promoting HIT in Stimulus Spending?
May 17th, 2009
This story tells how HIMSS and Harvard’s Blackford Middleton promoted spending billions on health IT in the stimulus bill.
HIMSS and Blackford believe that health...
The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform
May 16th, 2009
The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform: How an Industry Lobby Scored a Swift, Unexpected Victory by Channeling Billions to Electronic Records
The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform
May 16th, 2009
How an Industry Lobby Scored a Swift, Unexpected Victory by Channeling Billions to Electronic Records
When President Obama won approval for his $787 billion stimulus...
Financial System vs. Healthcare System
May 12th, 2009
The financial system is often lauded as being good at protecting Americans’ sensitive financial and demographic data, but the evidence is not so clear....
Heartland breach cost $12.6 million, CEO says
May 12th, 2009
Heartland Payment Systems Inc. said it was experiencing losses this quarter as a direct result of a massive data breach it disclosed in January...
First HIT Policy Committee Meeting on Stripping Privacy Away?
May 11th, 2009
No surprise the new HIT Policy committee is gearing up to eliminate privacy, i.e. patient control over personal health information, using the excuse that...
Committee studies public health, research
May 11th, 2009
The eligibility for $17 billion in economic stimulus law money for health information technology should include requirements for collecting and exchanging electronic public health...
Hackers Want Millions For Data on Prescriptions
May 8th, 2009
The FBI and Virginia State Police are searching for hackers who demanded that the state pay them a $10 million ransom by Thursday for...