20 Million Affected by Health Breaches

May 23rd, 2012
Number of digital patient privacy breaches climb drastically

Targeted attacks cost companies an average of $200k

May 22nd, 2012
The result of not bulking up information security efforts could cost companies more than $200,000

Re: Data-Mining in Doctor’s Office Helps Solve Medical Mysteries

May 22nd, 2012
Re: Data-Mining in Doctor's Office Helps Solve Medical Mysteries (aka "Crunch Two Data Sets, Call Me in the Morning")

Proposed Rules Prevent Patient Control Over Sensitive Information in Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

May 10th, 2012
PPR Submits Comments on Proposed Rule to Government Agencies Voicing Concerns

PPR at RSI 2012 Conference in Montreal

April 18th, 2012
5/3/12 Deborah C. Peel, MD will present at the Information Security Conference on America's Health IT Systems and Data Exchanges

PPR at ICASM Symposium at Hofstra U.

April 18th, 2012
4/24/12 Deborah C. Peel, MD will present on The Ethical Use of Internet Cloud Based Apps and Social Media (ICASM) in Health Care

Harvard’s Data Privacy Lab Launching HRB

April 17th, 2012
A Member of the PPR Board of Directors leads a Health Record Bank project putting patient's in control of who sees their health information.

Re: Utah’s Medical Privacy Breach – Nearing 1 Million!

April 11th, 2012
How can we expect to move forward with electronic health records when privacy and security are not coming first? Encryption was just one reason...

Re: Genetic Bar Code Search – Finding People in Huge Gene Pools

April 9th, 2012
Even without having the DNA... Could it find you?

Health privacy issues can be resolved without obstructing care

April 9th, 2012
Issues with patient privacy today are significant but not insurmountable.