Privacy Form Delivers Precious Little Protection to Citizens
October 30th, 2007
ou know the drill — you appear for a first visit at a doctor’s office or treatment clinic and among the routine papers for...
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Next president faces skeptical HIT crowd
October 30th, 2007
Now that the presidential candidates, both Democratic and Republican, have taken their first shots at defining their ideas for health care and the role...
Failure, de-installation of EHRs abound: study
October 30th, 2007
Failures of electronic medical-record systems are part of the lore of healthcare information technology.
Not surprisingly, a recently released survey of healthcare IT use conducted...
House committee clears healthcare IT bill
October 26th, 2007
The House Science and Technology Committee has cleared a bill aimed at boosting the role of information technology in healthcare. The legislation also charges...
Let patients decide who sees personal information
October 24th, 2007
For 30 years, a Texas psychiatrist watched her patients lose their jobs, get denied insurance or otherwise suffer because of information she was required...
Striking a balance between privacy and health
October 22nd, 2007
In the first of this two-part series on a study for the Institute of Medicine by researcher Alan Westin, emeritus professor of public law...
Ask and ye shall receive: study
October 19th, 2007
Many Americans will do their part when asked to allow their heath records to be used for medical research, but the operative phrase is...
Peel leads battle to protect medical privacy
October 12th, 2007
Imagine if FedEx ripped open every package it delivered and made copies of the documents inside before delivering the package. And then imagine that...
Keeping the Record Straight
October 12th, 2007
Hospitals and doctors are putting their paper records into digital form–and now you can, too. Having an electronic “personal health record” has been “a...
Privacy Concerns Prompt VA Hospitals To Withhold Cancer Data
October 10th, 2007
Department of Veterans Affairs officials are citing patient privacy concerns in their decision to stop providing states with information on cancer patients treated at...