Fox News Interview: Dangers of Electronic Medical Records

March 26th, 2010
Watch this video to see Patient Privacy Rights’ Founder and Chair speaks with Fox News about Health IT and our Do Not Disclose Petition Watch...

Is Your Dr. “Googling” You?

March 24th, 2010
Deborah Peel appeared on CNBC's Street Signs for a discussion on Doctors going online for additional patient information without patient consent

Your Medical Records Aren’t Secure

March 24th, 2010
4/24/10 A patient's sensitive information should not be shared without his consent. But this is not the case now, as the country moves toward...

How to reconcile Kaiser’s statements about who can access patient data

March 9th, 2010
Kaiser Permanente does not seem to stick with the same story when it comes to privacy.

Glitch prompts VA to shut e-health data exchange with Defense

March 4th, 2010
The Veterans Affairs Department closed off access to the Defense Department’s huge electronic health record system on Monday because it found errors in some...

Locking down privacy: Where do we draw the line?

March 1st, 2010
Patient privacy dates back to ancient Greece, beginning with the physician and teacher Hippocrates, who is often called the father of...

Patients are not being adequately informed about electronic patient records, says BMA

March 1st, 2010
Patients don’t have enough information about electronic patient records and it is too hard for them to opt-out if they want to, the...

Ethics Debate Over Blood From Newborn Safety Tests

February 8th, 2010
A critical safety net for babies — that heel prick of blood taken from every newborn — is facing an ethics attack.

Health Care’s Digital Privacy Debate

January 25th, 2010
A new study points to distrust in government and private industry when it comes to electronic health records.

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...