What is the Most Important Feature of a Payer-Offered Electronic Health Record?

August 24th, 2007
Nearly nine out of 10 survey respondents said that electronic health records offered by health insurers should have appropriate privacy and security features, according...

RTI study raises a wide array of reactions

August 23rd, 2007
Reactions varied widely between technology vendors, privacy advocates and government and clinical IT leaders questioned about a federally sponsored study that calls for re-engineering...

DHS Data Mining Program Suspended After Evading Privacy Review, Audit Finds

August 20th, 2007
A controversial Homeland Security data mining system called ADVISE that dreamed of searching through trillions of records culled from government, public and private databases...

Privacy breaches force online bill-payment company out of business

August 17th, 2007
Last April when a network technician working for Bellevue, Wash.-based Web content-management company Verus failed to set up a firewall properly as part of...

Privacy is true price of healthy worker discounts

August 15th, 2007
The latest fad in American health care is to give discounts to workers who are healthy. Many corporate CEOs and their benefits department managers...

Record-sharing stalls

August 14th, 2007
Cash, privacy issues halt effort to electronically link patient information Creating a system for local hospitals and physicians to electronically share medical records could...

RTI report includes controversial EHR requirement

August 14th, 2007
he Bush administration has signed off on 14 recommendations in a federally funded report by RTI International on how to use electronic health-record systems...

Authorization forms let insurance companies peek into your personal life

August 6th, 2007
I often am hired to represent a client several months after the accident. The client has already signed a medical authorization for the insurance...

How do you get a secret username and password out of an IRS employee? … Just ask.

August 3rd, 2007
The IRS is fairly diligent when it comes to warning citizens about IRS-related phishing scams, IRS-related malware, and IRS-related rip-off artists. What they’ve needed...

Zix Corporation Delivers for Non-profit Health System

August 1st, 2007
Zix Corporation, the leader in hosted services for email encryption and e-prescribing, today announced that the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System has...