Peel on Perlegen
April 1st, 2008
An EMR vendor (whose name is kept secret) profits from secret access to Americans’ health information and the patients don’t know their health information...
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Electronic Health Records wired for abuse
March 29th, 2008
“Oops! They did it to Britney again.” No, it’s not a song parody, but a reflection of the poor state of American health privacy...
Rx companies should save lives, not data
December 7th, 2007
In response to Joseph Conn’s “Data-miners unite in Maine to block ‘opt-out’ Rx law”: As a fourth-year medical student, I find it quite troubling...
For sale. Public Employees Insurance Agency drug data
November 27th, 2007
The good news is that a company hired to manage prescription-drug bills for the state government has stopped selling information about state...
Data-miners unite in Maine to block ‘opt-out’ Rx law
November 20th, 2007
The prescription drug data-mining industry opened yet another legal battlefront, this time in Maine, where no less than six firms are involved...
IMS Health, Wolters Kluwer Health and Verispan Challenge State Laws Restricting Access to Critical Healthcare Information
August 29th, 2007
With the goal of maintaining greater transparency and the free flow of information in the nation’s healthcare system, three leading health information companies IMS...
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...
Doctors Rated but Can’t Get a Second Opinion
July 25th, 2007
After 26 years of a successful medical practice, Alan Berkenwald took for granted that he had a good reputation. But last month he was...
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...
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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