DNA Destruction
March 9th, 2010
In the weeks before state health officials destroyed more than 5 million newborn blood samples they had stored without consent, privacy advocates, parents and...
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Glitch prompts VA to shut e-health data exchange with Defense
March 4th, 2010
The Veterans Affairs Department closed off access to the Defense Department’s huge electronic health record system on Monday because it found errors in some...
Locking down privacy: Where do we draw the line?
March 1st, 2010
Patient privacy dates back to ancient Greece, beginning with the physician and teacher Hippocrates, who is often called the father of...
Patients are not being adequately informed about electronic patient records, says BMA
March 1st, 2010
Patients don’t have enough information about electronic patient records and it is too hard for them to opt-out if they want to, the...
Privacy experts predict what first CPO will face
February 25th, 2010
PPR has high expectations of the Nation's first Chief Privacy Officer, Pritts
Ethics Debate Over Blood From Newborn Safety Tests
February 8th, 2010
A critical safety net for babies — that heel prick of blood taken from every newborn — is facing an ethics attack.
U.S. Health IT Office Reorganizes
February 6th, 2010
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has reorganized into groups including a Chief Privacy Officer.
The U.S. federal government...
Paperless Medicine?
January 28th, 2010
Electronic medical records that follow patients from doctor to doctor. Hospitals with instantaneous online access to lab results and health histories. Disease researchers with...
Health Care’s Digital Privacy Debate
January 25th, 2010
A new study points to distrust in government and private industry when it comes to electronic health records.
‘Meaningful use’ criteria released
December 30th, 2009
Modern Healthcare — HHS issued two sets of much-anticipated federal regulations that significantly further the government’s healthcare information technology adoption...