Sizing Up De-Identification Guidance, Experts Analyze HIPAA Compliance Report (quotes PPR)

December 4th, 2012
Sizing Up De-Identification Guidance, Experts Analyze HIPAA Compliance Report (quotes PPR)

Re: 2012: Time for Action on Health Privacy

January 9th, 2012
A leader of the ONC appointed HIT Policy Committee speaks out on HHS/ONC's lack of action regarding health privacy.

They got it wrong… AGAIN!

December 31st, 2009
See article: ‘Meaningful Use’ criteria released Can you believe it? Doctors and hospitals that purchase electronic health records (EHRs) ‘wired’ for ‘back-door’ data...

But privacy is ALREADY gone!

June 22nd, 2009
Refer to Wall Street Journal article: Is Government Health Care Constitutional? The authors fear that Americans’ health privacy rights will be eliminated by health reform...

A Start to Securing PHI?

May 6th, 2009
Sometimes press releases for new products tell us far more about the risk of identity theft in electronic health systems than the mainstream press...

Reducing Cost or Care? Orszag on HIT

May 4th, 2009
Fascinating ‘insider’ article on the budget process and the Orzag/Obama plan to reduce healthcare costs by building a health IT system ‘wired’ for data...

The true problems in HIT

January 30th, 2009
The experts quoted are correct that cost, interoperability, difficulty of use, work-flow disruption, and lack of proof of safety/effectivenss are good reasons not to...