April 12th, 2008
Think your weight is nobody’s business? Try telling that to employers.
Faced with ever-soaring health insurance costs, more employers are putting wellness programs into overdrive....
April 12th, 2008
Child advocates seek regulatory guidelines to prevent Internet firms from gathering sensitive information.
A coalition of medical groups and child advocates called Friday for guidelines...
April 11th, 2008
A company hired by the State of Georgia to administer health benefits for low-income patients is sending letters to notify tens of thousands of...
April 10th, 2008
WellPoint said Tuesday that the personal information of about 128,000 members was exposed online over the past year, AP/BusinessWeek reports. The exposed information might...
April 10th, 2008
It’s not surprising that hospital employees would be interested in the medical records of celebrities like Maria Shriver, Farrah Fawcett, Britney Spears and George...
April 10th, 2008
The Alaska House of Representatives voted 23-16 Wednesday to pass a senate bill creating a prescription drug database in Alaska despite objections that it...
April 10th, 2008
The state Department of Community Health said it has notified state and federal agencies that a Florida company mistakenly put the private records of...
April 9th, 2008
Health insurer WellPoint Inc is investigating the cause of a breach involving protected health information for about 130,000 members, the company said on Wednesday.
The...
April 9th, 2008
In response to recent data breaches, privacy advocates are calling for changes to medical privacy rules to allow patients to control who can access...
April 9th, 2008
Despite 34,000 complaints of violations in the last five years, the federal act has resulted in only a few prosecutions, and no civil fines...
