May 13th, 2008
The San Antonio Metropolitan Health District has established a city-based registry to more closely monitor the south Texas city’s “diabetes epidemic” and initiate improvements...
May 6th, 2008
To overcome elusive ROI figures on electronic medical record projects, vendors have been touting the value of digitized data for secondary uses such as...
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 28th, 2008
Deborah Peel, founder of Patient Privacy Rights, said the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, approved last week by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions...
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...
April 17th, 2008
A new study by an Oregon Health & Science University expert says a 40 percent hike in IT workforce will be needed to move...
April 9th, 2008
In response to recent data breaches, privacy advocates are calling for changes to medical privacy rules to allow patients to control who can access...
April 3rd, 2008
The leaders of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee joined representatives of the Business Roundtable in calling once again for passage of...
April 3rd, 2008
Senate and industry leaders met on Capitol Hill Wednesday to push a healthcare IT bill that came close to passing by special vote last...
March 26th, 2008
Health IT has tremendous potential in addressing the major challenges we face in healthcare: improving patient safety and quality of care and managing costs...
