July 16th, 2010
See the video where Practice Fusion admits to selling your information without your consent. Deborah Peel explains how detrimental this is.
June 18th, 2010
ATTEND THE FIRST EVER HEARING ON PRIVACY-ENHANCING TECHNOLOGIES IN THE NATION.
May 13th, 2010
Your health records have been used to make money for a long time now. Not only does this violate your privacy, but there is...
May 11th, 2010
PPR founder, Dr. Deborah Peel, testifies before the Texas Public Health Committee which was discussing the implementation of HIT.
May 10th, 2010
The problem is IBM’s research project does not appear to start with obtaining informed consent from the individuals (or their parents) whose data will...
May 6th, 2010
IBM has announced it has launched a multi-year research project to connect and analyze enormous collections of data from a wide variety of sources...
May 6th, 2010
AthenaHealth plans to use your records to make money. They explain how here.
April 17th, 2010
A controversial scheme to upload confidential medical records to a national database has been suspended following public outcry.
March 31st, 2010
Some concern that the National Health Information Network will be a Trojan horse for Big Brother.
March 26th, 2010
Fraud resulting from exposure of electronic medical records has risen from 3% in 2008 to 7% in 2009, a 112% increase, researcher says.