April 15th, 2008
WellPoint announced plans today to work with FDA and launch one of the first real-time medication surveillance systems, the Wall Street Journal reports. With...
April 13th, 2008
An employee of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center was charged on Saturday in federal court in Manhattan with stealing nearly 50,000 patient files and...
April 12th, 2008
Think your weight is nobody’s business? Try telling that to employers.
Faced with ever-soaring health insurance costs, more employers are putting wellness programs into overdrive....
April 12th, 2008
Child advocates seek regulatory guidelines to prevent Internet firms from gathering sensitive information.
A coalition of medical groups and child advocates called Friday for guidelines...
April 11th, 2008
A company hired by the State of Georgia to administer health benefits for low-income patients is sending letters to notify tens of thousands of...
April 10th, 2008
WellPoint said Tuesday that the personal information of about 128,000 members was exposed online over the past year, AP/BusinessWeek reports. The exposed information might...
April 10th, 2008
The Alaska House of Representatives voted 23-16 Wednesday to pass a senate bill creating a prescription drug database in Alaska despite objections that it...
April 10th, 2008
The state Department of Community Health said it has notified state and federal agencies that a Florida company mistakenly put the private records of...
April 9th, 2008
Health insurer WellPoint Inc is investigating the cause of a breach involving protected health information for about 130,000 members, the company said on Wednesday.
The...
April 9th, 2008
Despite 34,000 complaints of violations in the last five years, the federal act has resulted in only a few prosecutions, and no civil fines...
