April 2nd, 2008
The chair of the Department of Health’s National Information Governance Board, and influential patient representative, Harry Cayton, has joined the Information Commissioner in calling...
April 2nd, 2008
David Winn is right, when you sign up for the military, you have to do whatever they say.
The problem is that the Administration and...
April 1st, 2008
Government medical care providers should be able to retrieve useful treatment analytics from clinical data repositories, the better to assess the health care to...
April 1st, 2008
An EMR vendor (whose name is kept secret) profits from secret access to Americans’ health information and the patients don’t know their health information...
March 29th, 2008
“Oops! They did it to Britney again.” No, it’s not a song parody, but a reflection of the poor state of American health privacy...
March 29th, 2008
“Oops! They did it to Britney again.” No, it’s not a song parody, but a reflection of the poor state of American health privacy...
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...
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...
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...
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...
