June 4th, 2008
Dr. Deborah Peel, founder and chair of Patient Privacy Rights and leader of the bipartisan Coalition for Patient Privacy testifies today before the House...
June 2nd, 2008
A bill aimed at pushing the health care industry toward conversion to electronic records seemed to gain new life three weeks ago, after a...
June 2nd, 2008
When someone steals your identity, obtains loans in your name and then stiffs the lenders, the effects on your credit report can be devastating....
June 1st, 2008
People with behavioral health problems may be particularly sensitive about having their health information shared
During the past decade, behavioral healthcare has seen the advent...
June 1st, 2008
“The GAO was asked to determine (1) how commercially available encryption technologies can help agencies protect sensitive information and reduce risks; (2) the federal...
May 31st, 2008
To talk about the myths surrounding HIPAA and privacy, you have to first read what HIPAA actually says about privacy. The definition of “privacy”...
May 28th, 2008
One expert has described the current law governing the confidentiality of health care information as a “crazy quilt of Federal and state constitutional, statutory,...
May 27th, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration is developing a new electronic information system to monitor how drugs and other medical products perform once they go...
May 26th, 2008
Hospitals generally are well aware of what they have to do under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act to ensure the security of...
May 26th, 2008
Regarding “Selling the bitter EMR pill” (AMNews, April 7): The article, in essence, asks how do we convince the recalcitrant physician to swallow the...
