May 6th, 2008
Protecting privacy is foundational to electronic health records and healthcare information exchange. In 2007, the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel specified the technical standards...
April 27th, 2008
With a stroke of his pen, Gov. Ed Rendell created the Pennsylvania Health Information Exchange Governance Structure, which establishes the framework necessary to usher...
April 18th, 2008
If Deborah Peel, M.D., has her way, there will be no national electronic health and medical record system without a guarantee of patient privacy...
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...
March 28th, 2008
Certifying EHRs is supposed to help doctors pick the best products. But small medical practices generally don’t put much stock in this stamp of...
March 27th, 2008
The federal office in charge of creating a national network of electronic health records plans to integrate the system with the health care databases...
December 31st, 2007
Practice Fusion, a company that provides free online electronic health records to physicians, announced last week it will partner with Physician Services,...
December 5th, 2007
A consortium of nine companies in the health-care industry are banding together to create a set of security practices to better protect the information...
December 4th, 2007
Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt urged Congress yesterday to include a requirement for doctors to use electronic health records as part...
October 30th, 2007
Failures of electronic medical-record systems are part of the lore of healthcare information technology.
Not surprisingly, a recently released survey of healthcare IT use conducted...
