June 25th, 2008
Americans worried medical secrets in new databases will be misused Washington, DC Today, lawmakers will be making decisions about the future of patients’ medical...
May 16th, 2008
Revolution Health CEO Steve Case predicts that consumers will shake their concerns over the security of electronic health records just as they have with...
May 11th, 2008
As Tighter Immigration Policies Strain Federal Agencies, The Detainees in Their Care Often Pay a Heavy Cost
Near midnight on a California spring night, armed...
May 2nd, 2008
The House passed the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act Thursday, joining the Senate in approving a bill more than 10 years in the making.
The bill,...
April 2nd, 2008
The chair of the Department of Health’s National Information Governance Board, and influential patient representative, Harry Cayton, has joined the Information Commissioner in calling...
November 7th, 2007
A new company that offers genetic testing presents a privacy issue, according to patients’ rights advocates.
Navigenics officially launched its company after closing on a...
August 30th, 2007
In a recent editorial , Modern Healthcare argues that the current national health information technology (IT) efforts should be abandoned since they can’t succeed...
August 29th, 2007
The public comment period made available by RTI International is a sham. Who in the public would ever know that the study had been...
August 26th, 2007
Dr. David French has diagnosed gallstones, acute renal failure and congestive heart disease. He has also prescribed antibiotics for an infected cuticle, treated poison...
June 19th, 2007
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association has established physician and employer advisory groups to help further develop the association’s Blue Health Intelligence database...
