Bipartisan Coalition Sends Letter To Congress Urging Privacy Protections With Health IT

January 15th, 2009
At today’s news conference, the Coalition for Patient Privacy is releasing a letter sent to Congress advocating for the inclusion of privacy safeguards with...

Coalition wants privacy included with healthcare IT funding in stimulus package

January 15th, 2009
WASHINGTON The Coalition for Patient Privacy urged Congress Wednesday to include privacy safeguards with any funding earmarked for healthcare IT in an economic stimulus...

Report: Putting Health IT in Stimulus Would Be Catalyst for Adoption

January 12th, 2009
A panel of health industry experts urged Congress Monday to include health information technology measures in the economic stimulus package widely expected to become...

A Medical Records Essential: Privacy

January 4th, 2009
In his Dec. 22 op-ed, “Connecting the Medical Dots,” Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt made some good points about the need for...

Rescue plan renews health IT privacy debate

December 24th, 2008
The multi-billion-dollar economic stimulus plan renews patient privacy issue debate. The plan to add health information technology to the multibillion-dollar economic stimulus package legislators are...

Connecting The Medical Dots

December 22nd, 2008
Congress is considering adding money for health information technology to January’s stimulus package. Doing so could spur a critical mass of the nation’s doctors to...

Kennedy confident HIT bill will pass early in 2009

December 18th, 2008
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D- RI), co-chairman of the 21st Century Health Care Caucus, on Wednesday said he is optimistic that legislation would be passed...

State health IT, privacy legislation on the rise: report

December 10th, 2008
State legislators introduced more than 370 bills to boost healthcare information technology over an 18-month period in 2007 and 2008, with more than a...

Blues plan to help overhaul U.S. healthcare with healthcare IT

December 5th, 2008
BCBS proposes to Obama transition team a 5 point plan for employer based health IT system. BCBS contends that President-elect Obama’s plan to build reform...

Senators consider their options for health IT overhaul

December 4th, 2008
Senators Enzi and Kennedy discuss legislation linking nationwide electronic data base to economic stimulus. An aide to Health, Education, Labor and Pensions ranking member Michael...