Insecurities Plague Electronic Health Care

July 16th, 2010
While EHRs project substantial savings, there is much more at risk requiring greater focus on privacy and security.

Switch To Digital Medical Records Raises Concerns

July 16th, 2010
See the video where Practice Fusion admits to selling your information without your consent. Deborah Peel explains how detrimental this is.

HHS proposes stronger privacy protections under HIPAA

July 12th, 2010
Stimulus bill required HHS to modify HIPAA, and proposed rule will strengthen and modify HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules. See how.

PPR impressed with HHS’ privacy approach

July 9th, 2010
New HHS Policy: “no one has access to personal information unless you want them to.”

HHS pitches new patient privacy safeguards

July 8th, 2010
HHS FINALLY states that "privacy and security of personal health data is at the core of all of our work."

Attention doctors and vendors: Selling patient data without informed consent is now a federal crime

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...

Dr. Peel Testifies before Texas Public Health Committee

May 11th, 2010
PPR founder, Dr. Deborah Peel, testifies before the Texas Public Health Committee which was discussing the implementation of HIT.

Re: State agency swaps babies’ blood for supplies

May 11th, 2010
After using newborn babies' bloodspots without proper consent, the state of Texas is getting it wrong again.

Problems with IBM’s new “massive” research study

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...

IBM launches massive health data research project

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...
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