Patient Trust in Confidentiality Affects Health Decisions
August 29th, 2012
Patient Trust in Confidentiality Affects Health Decisions
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Crunch Two Data Sets, Call Me in the Morning
May 22nd, 2012
Patients not given discretion over data-mining of digitized health records despite serious ramifications.
Hospitals enlist vendors for data analytics help
May 17th, 2012
Data mining is a growing concern for patient privacy in hospitals as providers turn to tech corporations for help.
The Depressing State of HIEs
May 3rd, 2012
The Depressing State of HIEs
Harvard’s Data Privacy Lab launching health record bank
April 17th, 2012
Harvard's Data Privacy Lab launching health record bank
Health privacy issues can be resolved without obstructing care
April 9th, 2012
Issues with patient privacy today are significant but not insurmountable.
Re: BCBS Breach in Tennessee
March 14th, 2012
OCR of HHS slapped the wrist of BCBS of Tennessee, but should have done much, much more.
HHS quietly withdraws HIPAA breach-notification rule
August 2nd, 2010
Following a firestorm of criticism from privacy advocates... HHS has without fanfare withdrawn its HIPAA "breach notification" final rule that had been submitted to...
Problems with IBM’s new “massive” research study
May 10th, 2010
The problem is IBM’s research project does not appear to start with obtaining informed consent from the individuals (or their parents) whose data will...
IBM launches massive health data research project
May 6th, 2010
IBM has announced it has launched a multi-year research project to connect and analyze enormous collections of data from a wide variety of sources...