November 20th, 2009
Most health officials worry about hackers stealing sensitive information such as an AIDS diagnosis from someone’s electronic medical record, but a technology...
November 3rd, 2009
Pagers have for long been considered the doctor’s sidekick but in the United States, as hospitals face pressure for greater efficiency, smartphones...
November 3rd, 2009
Deborah Peel, MD spoke on a panel with three others at the American Constitution Society’s Conference.
November 2nd, 2009
“The problems are common to all mobile devices: encryption at rest on the device and in transit, and whether data on lost...
October 28th, 2009
The head of federal efforts to boost the use of health information technology told members of an IT advisory panel Tuesday that...
October 18th, 2009
Do you know where your private prescription information is? As pharmacy chains, benefits companies and drug makers work more closely, your prescription...
October 17th, 2009
TIME to revisit the always compelling — and often disconcerting — debate over digital privacy. So, what might your movie picks and...
August 11th, 2009
Cloud computing is not just on the healthcare horizon. Partial and pure-play cloud computing architectures are already serving healthcare information technology needs...
July 23rd, 2009
On last night’s O’Reilly Factor (7/22/09)… O’Reilly demonstrated his primary fear almost panic over the assumption that his medical records...
July 6th, 2009
Conservatives reportedly pushing for privitization
The British government is reportedly preparing a plan to give national health records to either Google or Microsoft, rather...
