EHRs: Certification doesn’t mean much to most small practices
March 28th, 2008
Certifying EHRs is supposed to help doctors pick the best products. But small medical practices generally don’t put much stock in this stamp of...
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National health records network to hook up with Google, Microsoft
March 27th, 2008
The federal office in charge of creating a national network of electronic health records plans to integrate the system with the health care databases...
Healthcare, Open Source, and Privacy
March 26th, 2008
Health IT has tremendous potential in addressing the major challenges we face in healthcare: improving patient safety and quality of care and managing costs...
Patient data exposed online
March 26th, 2008
A CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield dental HMO accidentally exposed personal information, including Social Security numbers, of about 75,000 members on a public Web site last...
Google to push privacy initiatives in U.S.
March 26th, 2008
Google is working with other companies to push consumer privacy legislation in Congress and will work with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to fine-tune...
Safeguarding Private Medical Data
March 26th, 2008
Almost 2,500 patients taking part in a federal medical trial recently had their private health data compromised when a researcher’s laptop computer was stolen....
Beware of Prescription Drug & Medical Information Databases
March 25th, 2008
The drumbeat for internet-accessible medical records is growing louder, as are calls in Georgia and other states for prescription-monitoring programs mandated by law. If...
NIH told patients about security breach weeks after incident
March 24th, 2008
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, informed patients on March 20 that a laptop computer containing...
Citizens’ Council On Health Care Objects To CDC Giving $38.1 Million To Build “intrusive” Patient Monitoring System
March 22nd, 2008
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just awarded $38.1 million to facilitate the sharing of private patient data with government. This is...
Privacy concerns mount amid the ‘microchipping of America’: Businesses seek patents on more applications for RFID
February 11th, 2008
RFID chips are being used more and more in health care. Today the main use proposed is to track whether you receive “authentic” or...