W.Va. Ends Reporting to Drug Companies
September 19th, 2007
The state’s health care plan for public employees has decided drug companies don’t need to know what medications are being prescribed to its members.
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Your Privacy Is an Illusion: How MySpace Targets its Ads
September 18th, 2007
There’s nothing quite like having your online profile mined for fun and profit. MySpace has revealed details of its new targeted advertising ploy to...
Regarding, “When Privacy Laws Do More Harm Than Good”
September 10th, 2007
Privacy forms the basis of liberty. The problem lies not with the laws but with those who fail to disclose needed information when required.
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Companies linking health factors to benefits
September 10th, 2007
First they tried nudging. Now companies are penalizing workers who have high health risks such as obesity and high blood pressure or cholesterol as...
Shhhhh! (10 Secrets the EHR Companies Don’t Want You to Know)
August 31st, 2007
Getting physicians to use an Electronic Health Record (EHR) is not an easy task. Getting them to fork over thousands of dollars for one...
Scrap the national IT plan … and do it right instead!
August 30th, 2007
In a recent editorial , Modern Healthcare argues that the current national health information technology (IT) efforts should be abandoned since they can’t succeed...
RTI public comment period ‘a sham’: reader
August 29th, 2007
The public comment period made available by RTI International is a sham. Who in the public would ever know that the study had been...
IMS Health, Wolters Kluwer Health and Verispan Challenge State Laws Restricting Access to Critical Healthcare Information
August 29th, 2007
With the goal of maintaining greater transparency and the free flow of information in the nation’s healthcare system, three leading health information companies IMS...
13 Million Grant for AHIC Successor
August 26th, 2007
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he Department of Health and Human Services has announced a grant of up to $13 million will be awarded for the design, creation and...
Health on the job
August 26th, 2007
Dr. David French has diagnosed gallstones, acute renal failure and congestive heart disease. He has also prescribed antibiotics for an infected cuticle, treated poison...