November 15th, 2007
Certification of healthcare information technology is advancing at a faster rate than last year, according to Mark Leavitt, chair of the Certification Commission for...
November 14th, 2007
A federal patient privacy rule has had a chilling effect on medical research, making it tougher to recruit patients and use their health records,...
November 11th, 2007
A top intelligence official says it is time people in the United States changed their definition of privacy.
Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says...
November 7th, 2007
A new report on health information exchange says state public-private health information exchange organizations are making progress in some areas, but the question of...
November 6th, 2007
What are the chances that you will get heart disease, or Alzheimer’s? Or that you’ll get fat? New genetic tests will soon be available...
November 5th, 2007
Since the launch of the Human Genome Project, genetic testing has been adopted increasingly into standard practice for diagnosing and managing disease, expanding on...
November 5th, 2007
A Maryland appeals court handed a victory to a physician who stood up to the state medical board in defense of his patients’ privacy...
November 2nd, 2007
Online privacy policies need to be easier to understand and more conspicuous because few people now actually read them, said panelists at a U.S....
November 2nd, 2007
A decade ago, I started writing about online privacy issues. At the time, legal colleagues told me that while they found the topic interesting...
October 31st, 2007
Most consumers are familiar with do-not-call lists, which are meant to keep telemarketers from phoning them. Soon people will be able to sign up...
