December 11th, 2007
Electronic clinical data exchange across the United States is far from a reality, with few organizations facilitating such exchange and many failing in the...
December 10th, 2007
An attempt to quickly pass a Senate health information technology bill was derailed after medical groups raised concerns about its quality measurement, patient privacy...
December 10th, 2007
Will privacy sell? Ask.com is betting it will. The fourth-largest search engine company will begin a service today called AskEraser, which allows users to...
December 7th, 2007
In response to Joseph Conn’s “Data-miners unite in Maine to block ‘opt-out’ Rx law”: As a fourth-year medical student, I find it quite troubling...
December 6th, 2007
Yesterday, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg publicly apologized about the social network’s poorly implemented, privacy-invading Beacon ad program, which broadcast users’ off-Facebook activity in news...
December 5th, 2007
A consortium of nine companies in the health-care industry are banding together to create a set of security practices to better protect the information...
December 4th, 2007
Most politicians support measures like so-called “prescription monitoring programs” mindlessly, figuring that if allowing the government access to medical records of scummy drug addicts...
December 4th, 2007
Not surprisingly, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, the Chicago-based trade group for healthcare information technology developers and users, supports the call yesterday...
December 4th, 2007
Physicians Think They Should Report Errors and Incompetence — but Say They Often Do Not
Physicians are among the most trusted professionals in America, but...
December 4th, 2007
Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt urged Congress yesterday to include a requirement for doctors to use electronic health records as part...
