September 19th, 2008
England Changes Stance on Patient Consent Policy for Electronic Records
A national electronic record of patients’ health looks finally on the cards five years late...
September 19th, 2008
An HHS office has resolved more than half of complaints about possible violations of the medical privacy rule issued after the passage of the...
September 19th, 2008
The Department of Health and Human Services has made progress toward addressing privacy in healthcare IT, but there is more yet to do, according...
September 19th, 2008
A national electronic record of patients’ health looks finally on the cards five years late after the NHS IT programme on Thursday changed the...
September 18th, 2008
The advent of “in the cloud” medical records services, such as Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health, promises an explosion in the storage of personal...
September 18th, 2008
Although the Health and Human Services Department has made progress in ensuring the protection of health information in a national network, there is still...
September 17th, 2008
Watch out folks, it’s finally happened. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has levied the first penalties against a healthcare agency....
September 16th, 2008
Some stakeholders are viewing legislation introduced late Monday by House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Fortney (Pete) Stark, D-Calif. — intended to help...
September 12th, 2008
With so much attention focused on Republican vice president nominee Sarah Palin’s record, market research firm INPUT took the time to examine Palin’s performance...
September 11th, 2008
A growing number of providers and health plans surveyed by the eHealth Initiative report a positive return on their healthcare exchange investments, according to...
