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 10th, 2008
The Alaska House of Representatives voted 23-16 Wednesday to pass a senate bill creating a prescription drug database in Alaska despite objections that it...
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...
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...
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...
December 13th, 2007
A bill to regulate pharmaceutical sales representatives was approved 7-6 on first reading by the District of Columbia Council on Dec. 11.
The bill, said...
December 10th, 2007
An attempt to quickly pass a Senate health information technology bill was derailed after medical groups raised concerns about its quality measurement, patient privacy...
December 4th, 2007
Not surprisingly, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, the Chicago-based trade group for healthcare information technology developers and users, supports the call yesterday...
November 16th, 2007
A comprehensive health technology bill that was expected to pass the Senate this week has instead gone back to federal lawmakers for more tinkering,...
October 18th, 2007
A bipartisan mix of lawmakers and private companies say Congress should pass legislation protecting the medical records of patients from potential identity theft and...
