6,000 UCSF patients’ data got put online
May 2nd, 2008
Information on thousands of UCSF patients was accessible on the Internet for more than three months last year, a possible violation of federal privacy...
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Congress passes genetic nondiscrimination bill amid concerns over privacy
May 2nd, 2008
The House passed the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act Thursday, joining the Senate in approving a bill more than 10 years in the making.
The bill,...
St.Jude Collaborates With Microsoft
May 2nd, 2008
St. Jude Medical and Microsoft collaborate to provide patients and physicians with better access to health records.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — St. Jude Medical, Inc....
Anti-Discrimination Bill Inadvertently Legalizes Sharing of Genetic Information Without Patient Consent
May 1st, 2008
“While authors of the recently passed Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (H.R. 493) had good intentions, the bill inadvertently legalizes the sharing of...
Medical privacy still isn’t protected
May 1st, 2008
The Sun’s article on the Senate’s vote to bar discrimination based on the results of genetic testing (“Measure would bar use of information by...
Every Italian’s income posted on internet
May 1st, 2008
The incomes of every Italian citizen were published on the web without any prior warning by the government, just days before it was due...
Experts argue over benefits of genetic testing
May 1st, 2008
A panel of cutting edge experts on healthcare and genetics duked it out at Wednesday’s Bio-IT World’s Sixth Annual Conference over the potential benefits...
Stay Out of My EMR
May 1st, 2008
Privacy issues are dominating the airwaves as the industry begins to deal with the EMR data-mining minefield
It seems you can’t pick up a newspaper...
Privacy, shmivacy: How many people can see your medical records?
April 29th, 2008
Hospital or first-time doctor visits all start with the same clipboard. Use it to fill out sensitive personal information and scrawl a signature on...
Across USA, anxiety over access to patient records
April 29th, 2008
Sandee Pingatore was determined to find out why her son, Troy, 29, had died in a California hospital while being treated for a drug...