PPR impressed with HHS’ privacy approach
July 9th, 2010
New HHS Policy: “no one has access to personal information unless you want them to.”
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HHS pitches new patient privacy safeguards
July 8th, 2010
HHS FINALLY states that "privacy and security of personal health data is at the core of all of our work."
Re: State agency swaps babies’ blood for supplies
May 11th, 2010
After using newborn babies' bloodspots without proper consent, the state of Texas is getting it wrong again.
State agency swaps babies’ blood for supplies
May 8th, 2010
Companies use blood to produce and test equipment. Previously WITHOUT consent.
IBM launches massive health data research project
May 6th, 2010
IBM has announced it has launched a multi-year research project to connect and analyze enormous collections of data from a wide variety of sources...
AthenaHealth Paying Dearly to Take on Larger Rivals
May 6th, 2010
AthenaHealth plans to use your records to make money. They explain how here.
Nominate PPR & Keep Privacy Powerful
April 28th, 2010
Each year Modern Healthcare encourages the public to nominate and vote for the "100 Most Powerful in Healthcare". Do you have a moment...
Indian Tribe Wins Fight to Limit Research of Its DNA
April 21st, 2010
This is a strong example of how patients are willing to opt in to certain research, but will not tolerate secondary uses of their...
Controversial medical records database suspended
April 17th, 2010
A controversial scheme to upload confidential medical records to a national database has been suspended following public outcry.
UK: Labour [Party] attacked over mailshot to cancer patients
April 11th, 2010
UK patients are outraged over whether the government NHS (National Health Service) data base was used to find individual cancer patients and pressure them...