Online Marketers Joining Internet Privacy Efforts
October 31st, 2007
Most consumers are familiar with do-not-call lists, which are meant to keep telemarketers from phoning them. Soon people will be able to sign up...
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Privacy Form Delivers Precious Little Protection to Citizens
October 30th, 2007
ou know the drill — you appear for a first visit at a doctor’s office or treatment clinic and among the routine papers for...
Next president faces skeptical HIT crowd
October 30th, 2007
Now that the presidential candidates, both Democratic and Republican, have taken their first shots at defining their ideas for health care and the role...
Failure, de-installation of EHRs abound: study
October 30th, 2007
Failures of electronic medical-record systems are part of the lore of healthcare information technology.
Not surprisingly, a recently released survey of healthcare IT use conducted...
House committee clears healthcare IT bill
October 26th, 2007
The House Science and Technology Committee has cleared a bill aimed at boosting the role of information technology in healthcare. The legislation also charges...
Let patients decide who sees personal information
October 24th, 2007
For 30 years, a Texas psychiatrist watched her patients lose their jobs, get denied insurance or otherwise suffer because of information she was required...
Psychiatrist Among Powerful Voices in Health Care
October 23rd, 2007
The psychiatrist who founded and chairs the organization Patient Privacy Rights uses the spotlight recently shined on her to call for stricter protections for...
Striking a balance between privacy and health
October 22nd, 2007
In the first of this two-part series on a study for the Institute of Medicine by researcher Alan Westin, emeritus professor of public law...
Strange Bedfellows on Health Privacy: ACLU & Microsoft
October 19th, 2007
What do the ACLU, Gun Owners of America, the Free Congress Foundation and Microsoft have in common? A hankering for patient privacy, it seems.
With...
Ask and ye shall receive: study
October 19th, 2007
Many Americans will do their part when asked to allow their heath records to be used for medical research, but the operative phrase is...