December 28th, 2007
Each year since 1997, the US-based Electronic Privacy Information Center and the UK-based Privacy International have undertaken what has now become the most comprehensive...
December 21st, 2007
Federal efforts to advance healthcare IT will have to be made on half the amount President Bush hoped to get for next year.
In a...
December 11th, 2007
Electronic clinical data exchange across the United States is far from a reality, with few organizations facilitating such exchange and many failing in the...
December 10th, 2007
An attempt to quickly pass a Senate health information technology bill was derailed after medical groups raised concerns about its quality measurement, patient privacy...
December 10th, 2007
Will privacy sell? Ask.com is betting it will. The fourth-largest search engine company will begin a service today called AskEraser, which allows users to...
December 1st, 2007
They dominated the headlines and made bold announcements that created huge impacts in the healthcare industry and across America.
Marquee names topped the results in...
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...
November 16th, 2007
A comprehensive health technology bill that was expected to pass the Senate this week has instead gone back to federal lawmakers for more tinkering,...
November 7th, 2007
A new company that offers genetic testing presents a privacy issue, according to patients’ rights advocates.
Navigenics officially launched its company after closing on a...
November 1st, 2007
It’s been a month abuzz with George Clooney. You know who he is the I’m-not-a doctor-but-I-used-to-play-one-on-TV guy. He was pre-McDreamy handsome as Dr. Doug...
