Shifts in Health Information
July 10th, 2008
To the Editor: In their Sounding Board article on shifts in health information, Mandl and Kohane (April 17 issue)1 observe that “companies providing PCHRs...
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Justice Breyer Is Among Victims in Data Breach Caused by File Sharing
July 9th, 2008
Sometime late last year, an employee of a McLean investment firm decided to trade some music, or maybe a movie, with like-minded users of...
Congress Opens Debate on Behavioral Advertising
July 9th, 2008
On Capitol Hill today, two opposing sides fired the first shots in what promises to be a heated debate over whether or not Internet...
Removing health IT barriers
July 7th, 2008
“It appears that the AMA has decided to eliminate its long-standing ethical policy of requiring consent before use and disclosure of health information. This...
Union warns EHRs should be secure
July 3rd, 2008
Failure to adequately secure electronic medical records could result in a court hearing or even criminal charges, warns the Medical and Dental Defence Union...
Mitigating Medical Identity Theft
July 1st, 2008
Medical identity theft accounts for 3 percent of identity theft crimes, or 249,000 of the estimated 8.3 million people who had their identities stolen...
Data Breach Reports Up 69 Percent in 2008
June 30th, 2008
Businesses, governments and universities reported a record number of data breaches in the first half of this year, a 69 percent increase over the...
Wards didn’t tell consumers about credit card hack
June 30th, 2008
An old name in retail was hit by a modern scourge — a hack of its customers’ credit card numbers — but didn’t inform...
Public wants PHRs, but with privacy caveats: survey
June 27th, 2008
Privacy concerns could present a significant psychological barrier to individuals signing up for personal health records while a sizable majority of the public wants...
Gene Testing Questioned By Regulators
June 26th, 2008
Regulators are cracking down on companies that sell genetic tests directly to consumers, threatening to crimp the growth of one of the hottest sectors...