AthenaHealth Paying Dearly to Take on Larger Rivals
May 6th, 2010
AthenaHealth plans to use your records to make money. They explain how here.
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April 28th, 2010
Each year Modern Healthcare encourages the public to nominate and vote for the "100 Most Powerful in Healthcare". Do you have a moment...
Latanya Sweeney Briefs Congress
April 27th, 2010
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April 21st, 2010
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Controversial medical records database suspended
April 17th, 2010
A controversial scheme to upload confidential medical records to a national database has been suspended following public outcry.
PPR on article: What ‘Patient-Centered’ Should Mean…
April 12th, 2010
It is extremely helpful that the nominee to head of one of the largest federal agencies, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), stated...
Discussion on Targeting in the UK using the National Health Service
April 12th, 2010
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UK: Labour [Party] attacked over mailshot to cancer patients
April 11th, 2010
UK patients are outraged over whether the government NHS (National Health Service) data base was used to find individual cancer patients and pressure them...
PPR responds to NHS sending patient information to India
April 5th, 2010
Founder Dr. Peel describes cloud computing and offshoring patient information in response to NHS in the UK
NHS sends confidential patients’ records to India despite pledges it would not
April 5th, 2010
The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK is deciding to ignore the outsourcing privacy concerns.