Baby’s death spotlights safety risks linked to computerized systems

June 27th, 2011
This is the tip of the iceberg on the many risks of electronic health records that must be addressed as billions of stimulus dollars...

Press Release for Health Privacy Summit 2011

May 11th, 2011
Announcing the Inaugural International Summit on Health Privacy June 13 in Washington, D.C.

Re:Epsilon breach used four-month-old attack

April 13th, 2011
Epsilon, the world’s largest email service provider, did not respond to 4 month-old warnings that their systems were vulnerable to hackers trying to access...

Re: “Web’s Hot New Commodity: Privacy”

February 28th, 2011
Finally the market for digital privacy is being built!

PPR Comments on the PCAST HIT Report

January 25th, 2011
The President's Council (PCAST) weighed in on how the Administration should approach HIT. See what PPR had to say.

Re: Release of Ponemon “Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security” on Nov 9th

November 9th, 2010
Study found that 53% of health care organizations are “not confident” they know where patient data is actually located.

Steady Bleed: State of HealthCare Data Breaches — Comments

September 23rd, 2010
The numbers are even higher than you can imagine, and rising.

Proposed United States medical privacy rules deemed inadequate

September 22nd, 2010
An outsiders view on how the U.S. is doing in Health IT, and how PRIVACY is leading the conversation.

New HIPAA rules need more clarification

September 21st, 2010
Industry argues the rules are too strict, while we have already seen privacy enhancing technologies that can do the job.

Coalition Urges HHS To Restore Patient Control Over Access to Health Data NOW

September 14th, 2010
Now is the time to restore Americans' rights to control personal health information. Electronic health systems and data exchanges should work the way patients...