Thieves Winning Online War, Maybe Even in Your Computer
December 15th, 2008
Internet security is broken, and nobody seems to know quite how to fix it.
Despite the efforts of the computer security industry and a half-decade...
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State health IT, privacy legislation on the rise: report
December 10th, 2008
State legislators introduced more than 370 bills to boost healthcare information technology over an 18-month period in 2007 and 2008, with more than a...
Google Flu Trends spreads privacy concern
December 9th, 2008
Google’s new Flu Trends tool, which collects and analyzes search queries to predict flu outbreaks around the country, is raising concern with privacy groups....
Senate gets early start on health reform plan
December 8th, 2008
Sens. Baucus and Kennedy are working with a bipartisan group on the goal of moving a consensus bill through the Senate next year.
Washington —...
Putting data breach genie back in bottle? Good luck
December 8th, 2008
A little more than a week ago, retail store operator TJX settled a class-action suit filed over the theft of 45.7 million credit and...
Physician network to use genomic-based preventive healthcare
December 8th, 2008
MDVIP, Inc., a national network of physicians based in Boca Raton, Fla., is collaborating with a personal genomics testing company in an effort to...
Med-record-release business still trumping EHRs
December 8th, 2008
Electronic health-record systems (EHR) won’t put an end to the ROI (Release of Information) business any time soon due to the still low levels...
Letters: Which Way Privacy?
December 7th, 2008
Re “You’re Leaving a Digital Trail. Should You Care?” (Nov. 30):
The article concluded with the director of the M.I.T.Center for Collective Intelligence as saying: “For...
Security Fix
December 6th, 2008
Digging Deeper Into the CheckFree Attack
The hijacking of the nation’s largest e-bill payment system this week offers a glimpse of an attack that experts...
Blues plan to help overhaul U.S. healthcare with healthcare IT
December 5th, 2008
BCBS proposes to Obama transition team a 5 point plan for employer based health IT system.
BCBS contends that President-elect Obama’s plan to build reform...