December 10th, 2008
State legislators introduced more than 370 bills to boost healthcare information technology over an 18-month period in 2007 and 2008, with more than a...
December 10th, 2008
In response to the NYTimes front page article “Thieves Winning Online War, Maybe Even in Your Computer”, Dr. Peel points out the dangers of...
December 9th, 2008
Patients whose physicians “collaborate” with genetic testing corporations should beware. Today, Navigenics and all genetic testing businesses can legally sell genomic data. There is...
December 9th, 2008
Google’s new Flu Trends tool, which collects and analyzes search queries to predict flu outbreaks around the country, is raising concern with privacy groups....
December 8th, 2008
Sens. Baucus and Kennedy are working with a bipartisan group on the goal of moving a consensus bill through the Senate next year.
Washington —...
December 8th, 2008
A little more than a week ago, retail store operator TJX settled a class-action suit filed over the theft of 45.7 million credit and...
December 8th, 2008
MDVIP, Inc., a national network of physicians based in Boca Raton, Fla., is collaborating with a personal genomics testing company in an effort to...
December 8th, 2008
Electronic health-record systems (EHR) won’t put an end to the ROI (Release of Information) business any time soon due to the still low levels...
December 7th, 2008
You might expect health-care providers and insurance companies to use the best security measures to keep your medical information private.
But a national expert on...
December 7th, 2008
Re “You’re Leaving a Digital Trail. Should You Care?” (Nov. 30):
The article concluded with the director of the M.I.T.Center for Collective Intelligence as saying: “For...
