Appeals court backs N.H. law on prescription data
November 18th, 2008
A federal appeals court has upheld a New Hampshire law that aims to block the use of data on physicians’ and other clinicians’ prescribing...
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NH prescription privacy law upheld
November 18th, 2008
New Hampshire’s 1st-in-nation law making docs’ prescriptions records confidential is upheld
NEW YORK (Associated Press) – A federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of...
Appeals Court Reverses Decision on Prescription Privacy
November 18th, 2008
The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation law that bars companies from selling the prescriptions doctors write.
Last year a...
Prescription privacy law upheld
November 18th, 2008
A federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation law making doctors’ prescription writing habits confidential.
The ruling Tuesday by the 1st...
Federal Court Upholds Drug Privacy Law
November 18th, 2008
A federal appeals court in Boston on Tuesday dealt a setback to the pharmaceutical industry and companies that collect prescription data for use in...
A New Voice in Online Privacy: Group Wants Tighter Rules for Collecting, Using Consumer Data
November 17th, 2008
A group of privacy scholars, lawyers and corporate officials are launching an advocacy group today designed to help shape standards around how companies collect,...
Online Age Verification for Children Brings Privacy Worries
November 15th, 2008
WHEN it comes to protecting children on the Internet and keeping them safe from predators, law enforcement officials have vocally advocated one approach in...
PHR savings estimate causes industry ‘illusion’
November 14th, 2008
o save $21 billion annually, where will the savings come from? How many layoffs? It’s these–30 minutes per person, per day saving calculations–that scare...
Unions Say CVS Pushed Costly Drug to Doctors
November 14th, 2008
A group of labor unions is launching a campaign that accuses CVS Caremark Corp. of violating patient privacy and improperly pushing doctors to prescribe...
UF officials say hacker accessed 344,400 dental-patient records
November 13th, 2008
University of Florida officials say an unauthorized intruder accessed a College of Dentistry computer server containing personal information of more than 344,000 current and...