May 11th, 2007
The third shoe has dropped in giving hospitals federal blessing to subsidize the cost of providing electronic health records systems software and technical support...
May 9th, 2007
Imagine going to your bank’s Web site and being able to pick a doctor, schedule an office visit, check lab results or pay a...
May 4th, 2007
The biggest known theft of credit-card numbers in history began two summers ago outside a Marshalls discount clothing store near St. Paul, Minn. There,...
May 1st, 2007
n the last few weeks we have had a number of reminders that management of the privacy of patient records remains a contentious and...
May 1st, 2007
(In response to Joseph Conn’s “AHIC reviews, sends back EHR recommendations”) The American Health Information Community does not recognize that most physicians choose not...
April 30th, 2007
A federal judge on Monday struck down New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation law that makes doctors’ prescription-writing habits confidential, saying it violates the First Amendment. Drug...
April 29th, 2007
Maine wants to ban the data mining and sale of identifiable prescription records to drug companies. It’s about time. But marketing to doctors is...
April 29th, 2007
The world’s hearts and prayers go out to the families of the students and professors who were slain at Virginia Tech. Their deaths are...
April 27th, 2007
Two self-described “consumer” organizations, both with humble beginnings, are competing to have their representative voted onto the one vacant spot on the board of...
April 25th, 2007
The American Health Information Community on Tuesday sent back for revision a list of recommendations by its work group on electronic health records aimed...
