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...
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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.
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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...
Bill sought to shield medical data
October 18th, 2007
A bipartisan mix of lawmakers and private companies say Congress should pass legislation protecting the medical records of patients from potential identity theft and...
Coalition to Congress: Don’t pass health IT bill without privacy protections
October 18th, 2007
A coalition of 47 organizations that span the political spectrum today called on Congress to refrain from passing health information technology legislation unless the...
Microsoft joins lawmakers, activists to demand patient privacy rights
October 18th, 2007
Lawmakers, corporations and activists joined today to urge Congress to protect patients’ medical privacy rights. Activists say such rights are not adequately protected, especially...
Peel leads battle to protect medical privacy
October 12th, 2007
Imagine if FedEx ripped open every package it delivered and made copies of the documents inside before delivering the package. And then imagine that...