When you sneeze, does Google tell the Feds?
November 15th, 2008
Anonymization’ – a word with no meaning
When unveiling its search-data-driven Flu Trends modeler earlier this week, Google insisted it could never be used to...
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Online Age Verification for Children Brings Privacy Worries
November 15th, 2008
WHEN it comes to protecting children on the Internet and keeping them safe from predators, law enforcement officials have vocally advocated one approach in...
PHR savings estimate causes industry ‘illusion’
November 14th, 2008
o save $21 billion annually, where will the savings come from? How many layoffs? It’s these–30 minutes per person, per day saving calculations–that scare...
Unions Say CVS Pushed Costly Drug to Doctors
November 14th, 2008
A group of labor unions is launching a campaign that accuses CVS Caremark Corp. of violating patient privacy and improperly pushing doctors to prescribe...
Is There a Privacy Risk in Google Flu Trends?
November 13th, 2008
When Google released its Flu Trends service earlier this week, the Drudge Report flashed a headline that read: “SICK SURVEILLANCE: GOOGLE REPORTS FLU SEARCHES,...
UF officials say hacker accessed 344,400 dental-patient records
November 13th, 2008
University of Florida officials say an unauthorized intruder accessed a College of Dentistry computer server containing personal information of more than 344,000 current and...
SICK SURVEILLANCE: GOOGLE REPORTS FLU SEARCHES, LOCATIONS TO FEDS
November 11th, 2008
GOOGLE will launch a new tool that will help federal officials “track sickness”.
Flu terms uses search terms that people put into the web giant...
Threat Claims Theft of Data on Patients
November 7th, 2008
Express Scripts Inc., one of the nation’s largest pharmacy-benefit managers, said it received an anonymous letter early last month seeking money as part of...
Social Security number, medical records found in municipal Dumpster
November 7th, 2008
Branches of county and state government in Pinellas have improperly disposed of documents that contain citizens’ sensitive personal information. Pinellas clerk of the circuit...
Case Western Reserve University professors call for regulation of electronic health records
October 30th, 2008
Cost and security concerns about bringing health care record keeping into the 21st century through electronic health records (EHR) have led to a call...