December 7th, 2009
Lora Bentley spoke with Ashley Katz, the executive director for Patient Privacy Rights, a national non-profit consumer health privacy watchdog, just before...
December 7th, 2009
Private industry, not the federal government, will eventually drive health information technology initiatives, said David Blumenthal, national coordinator for health information technology...
December 7th, 2009
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology plans to host the first work group meeting on privacy and security...
December 3rd, 2009
Personal health records have been around for awhile. Microsoft’s HealthVault, for instance, entered beta in 2007. Google jumped into the fray not...
December 3rd, 2009
In short, this sector is a long way from maturity. There are still huge problems to solve in the space.
Mixed feelings =...
December 3rd, 2009
Are personal health records privacy risks? Most people are at a loss trying to figure that out, according to the Patient Privacy...
December 2nd, 2009
Platforms provided by employers and insurers received an “F” rating from the report card.
…Katz said PPR could not grade the Partners/Programs on...
December 2nd, 2009
A consumer watchdog group is warning that many leading electronic medical record systems don’t do enough to secure sensitive patient information
“We’re alarmed...
December 2nd, 2009
Patient Privacy Rights has issued a privacy-oriented report card on some of the available PHRs (personal health records).
Inspection of the summary chart...
December 2nd, 2009
This report card was based on what was determined to be privacy protection. Below I have listed the comments about using ...
