Health IT bill headed for Senate action
June 28th, 2007
The Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has passed the Wired for Health Care Quality Act, which promises to modernize health care by...
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Strong Laws, Smart Tech Can Stop Abusive ‘Data Reuse’
June 28th, 2007
When we think about our personal data, what bothers us most is generally not the initial collection and use, but the secondary uses. I...
Blues’ claims database illegal, unethical: reader
June 27th, 2007
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association’s illegal and unethical plan to sell data to large employers on all 79 million Blues enrollees against...
Privacy Isn’t Dead, or At Least It Shouldn’t Be: A Q&A with Latanya Sweeney
June 27th, 2007
In a post-9/11 world, where security demands are high, personal privacy does not have to be sacrificed, says computer scientist Latanya Sweeney, who discusses...
Drug Industry Mine Physicians’ Data to Boost Sale
June 26th, 2007
Every day, thousands of representatives from pharmaceutical companies visit physicians to get them to prescribe the company’s newest drugs
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Lawmakers: Medicare’s cost crisis starving health IT
June 22nd, 2007
The prognosis is simple for a health care system that is hemorrhaging money: Submit to rehabilitation in the form of widespread adoption of information...
NCVHS Letter to HHS
June 22nd, 2007
On June 22, 2006, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) sent (HHS) a letter report, Privacy and Confidentiality in the Nationwide...
Privacy advocates criticize GAO testimony, HHS
June 22nd, 2007
Author’s note: On Tuesday, in testimony before a congressional oversight committee hearing, the Government Accountability Office criticized the lack of progress by HHS and...
GAO cites HHS for not establishing IT milestones
June 21st, 2007
In an update of a January report, the Government Accountability Office has again criticized HHS for failing to have an integrated approach to developing...
Advisory groups to help with Blues claims database
June 19th, 2007
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association has established physician and employer advisory groups to help further develop the association’s Blue Health Intelligence database...