September 14th, 2005
The federal government is making medical information on Hurricane Katrina evacuees available online to doctors, the first time private records from various pharmacies and...
September 13th, 2005
One oncologist evacuated flooded New Orleans clutching a laptop computer with some patients’ records, another threw some paper charts in her truck on the...
September 13th, 2005
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today selected 16 commissioners to serve on the American Health Information Community (the Community), a federally-chartered commission charged with advising...
August 30th, 2005
As Brooke Shields testifies in her recent memoir, into many a postpartum life a little rain must fall. And evidently, a little Tom Cruise as...
August 23rd, 2005
The new Medicare law has touched off explosive growth in lobbying by the health care industry, whose spending on advocacy here far exceeds that...
August 12th, 2005
President Bush signed into law a bill to create electronic monitoring programs to prevent the abuse of prescription drugs in all 50 states.
The new...
August 8th, 2005
Some IT managers at large health care organizations are delighted that the federal government plans to offer its electronic health records (EHR) software to...
July 2nd, 2005
Sneezing and headaches are starting to mean something to many employers.
Sensing that they’re hitting a ceiling in terms of passing along health costs to...
May 23rd, 2005
{We believe this interpretation of HIPAA is wrong and that the authors’ position violates medical ethics requiring patient consent before use or disclosure of...
March 28th, 2005
Though lauded as a standard-bearer for medical privacy nationwide, a federal law that took effect in April doesn’t seem to be doing Clif Poole...
