Privacy is true price of healthy worker discounts
August 15th, 2007
The latest fad in American health care is to give discounts to workers who are healthy. Many corporate CEOs and their benefits department managers...
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Record-sharing stalls
August 14th, 2007
Cash, privacy issues halt effort to electronically link patient information Creating a system for local hospitals and physicians to electronically share medical records could...
RTI report includes controversial EHR requirement
August 14th, 2007
he Bush administration has signed off on 14 recommendations in a federally funded report by RTI International on how to use electronic health-record systems...
How do you get a secret username and password out of an IRS employee? … Just ask.
August 3rd, 2007
The IRS is fairly diligent when it comes to warning citizens about IRS-related phishing scams, IRS-related malware, and IRS-related rip-off artists. What they’ve needed...
Zix Corporation Delivers for Non-profit Health System
August 1st, 2007
Zix Corporation, the leader in hosted services for email encryption and e-prescribing, today announced that the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System has...
Co-defendant in patient-ID theft scheme gets prison term
July 31st, 2007
The co-defendant in an extensive identity-theft scheme that targeted hospital patients was sentenced today to two years and three months in prison. Linda D....
Doctors Rated but Can’t Get a Second Opinion
July 25th, 2007
After 26 years of a successful medical practice, Alan Berkenwald took for granted that he had a good reputation. But last month he was...
Privacy is key to interoperability
July 23rd, 2007
Privacy should not be considered an “obstacle” to patient data sharing and it is not a trade-off for electronic records, according to speakers at...
Military Medical Breach Revealed
July 21st, 2007
A government contractor handling sensitive health information for 867,000 U.S. service members and their families acknowledged yesterday that some of its employees sent unencrypted...
IT guru says some e-vendor contracts violate privacy
July 19th, 2007
A nationally prominent physician informaticist who serves as a member of a federal privacy advisory panel said that some electronic health-record and...