Sponsors seek to move on health IT bill
April 3rd, 2008
The leaders of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee joined representatives of the Business Roundtable in calling once again for passage of...
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Privacy advocate’s health data is stolen: Lawmaker’s medical records nabbed along with government laptop
April 3rd, 2008
f there’s one person whose medical records you wouldn’t want to lose track of, it’s the co-chairman of the congressional caucus that focuses on...
Centers Tap Into Personal Databases: State Groups Were Formed After 9/11
April 2nd, 2008
- Intelligence centers run by states across the country have access to personal information about millions of Americans, including unlisted cellphone numbers, insurance claims,...
Patient Tsar backs tougher data theft laws
April 2nd, 2008
The chair of the Department of Health’s National Information Governance Board, and influential patient representative, Harry Cayton, has joined the Information Commissioner in calling...
Military health forum envisions clinical analytics
April 1st, 2008
Government medical care providers should be able to retrieve useful treatment analytics from clinical data repositories, the better to assess the health care to...
Peel on Perlegen
April 1st, 2008
An EMR vendor (whose name is kept secret) profits from secret access to Americans’ health information and the patients don’t know their health information...
Electronic Health Records wired for abuse
March 29th, 2008
“Oops! They did it to Britney again.” No, it’s not a song parody, but a reflection of the poor state of American health privacy...
EHRs: Certification doesn’t mean much to most small practices
March 28th, 2008
Certifying EHRs is supposed to help doctors pick the best products. But small medical practices generally don’t put much stock in this stamp of...
National health records network to hook up with Google, Microsoft
March 27th, 2008
The federal office in charge of creating a national network of electronic health records plans to integrate the system with the health care databases...
Healthcare, Open Source, and Privacy
March 26th, 2008
Health IT has tremendous potential in addressing the major challenges we face in healthcare: improving patient safety and quality of care and managing costs...