HIV testing should require consent and promise privacy
June 7th, 2007
T
he lure of federal dollars may be prompting California lawmakers to consider an ill-advised law to make HIV testing routine. But there’s nothing routine...
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All the privacy of a hospital gown
June 7th, 2007
Sure, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 has scared your employer from telling your coworkers you are home sick with strep...
Price of privacy depends on how you look at it
June 5th, 2007
While people always seem to want what they don’t have, they tend to inflate the value of the things they do have. Economists call...
Survey: 1 in 3 IT staffers snoop
May 31st, 2007
When it comes to prying into personal information of fellow company employees, many information-technology professionals could qualify for a black belt in snooping, a...
Physician, Upgrade Thyself
May 30th, 2007
Go into almost any medical office, hospital or clinic in the United States and your records will still be handled the old-fashioned way —...
Google Aims to Extend Data Mantra into Health Care
May 29th, 2007
At Forrester Research’s IT Forum in Nashville on May 16, Google Enterprise Vice President and General Manager David Girouard summed up his company’s product...
Suit Sheds Light on Clintons’ Ties to a Benefactor
May 26th, 2007
When former President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton took a family vacation in January 2002 to Acapulco, Mexico, one of their longtime...
Medco and Revolution Health Join Forces to Make Healthy Living Easier for Millions of Americans
May 23rd, 2007
Medco Health Solutions, Inc., one of the nation’s leading pharmacy benefit managers, and Revolution Health, a leading consumer-centric health company created by AOL Co-founder...
Google’s goal: to organise your daily life
May 22nd, 2007
Google’s ambition to maximise the personal information it holds on users is so great that the search engine envisages a day when it can...
HIPAA allows police access to patients, federal judge rules
May 21st, 2007
The case highlights the interplay between state and federal laws on sharing medical information about alleged crime victims, experts say.
HIPAA privacy rules do not...