New Dem of the Week: Sheldon Whitehouse
July 5th, 2007
Soaring costs are pushing health care beyond the reach of many ordinary Americans. The typical family health insurance policy now costs more than a...
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PHRs: Promise vs. Problems
July 5th, 2007
The US government is pressing to convert the nation’s health care system to electronic health records, wiring all our personal health records (PHRs) together...
Patient control a must
July 1st, 2007
It’s really atrocious that these three organizations would even consider supporting HIT legislation without patient control of access to...
AMA says human RFID tags could pose serious privacy risk
June 28th, 2007
RFID tags operate over short distances to provide a scanner with basic information about whatever item they’re attached to. This is being used commercially...
Health IT bill headed for Senate action
June 28th, 2007
The Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has passed the Wired for Health Care Quality Act, which promises to modernize health care by...
Strong Laws, Smart Tech Can Stop Abusive ‘Data Reuse’
June 28th, 2007
When we think about our personal data, what bothers us most is generally not the initial collection and use, but the secondary uses. I...
Blues’ claims database illegal, unethical: reader
June 27th, 2007
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association’s illegal and unethical plan to sell data to large employers on all 79 million Blues enrollees against...
Privacy Isn’t Dead, or At Least It Shouldn’t Be: A Q&A with Latanya Sweeney
June 27th, 2007
In a post-9/11 world, where security demands are high, personal privacy does not have to be sacrificed, says computer scientist Latanya Sweeney, who discusses...
Lawmakers: Medicare’s cost crisis starving health IT
June 22nd, 2007
The prognosis is simple for a health care system that is hemorrhaging money: Submit to rehabilitation in the form of widespread adoption of information...
NCVHS Letter to HHS
June 22nd, 2007
On June 22, 2006, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) sent (HHS) a letter report, Privacy and Confidentiality in the Nationwide...