October 28th, 2005
Health information technology legislation is swirling around Capitol Hill this week, and there’s no shortage of recommendations of how it should be done.
Privacy advocacy...
May 23rd, 2005
{We believe this interpretation of HIPAA is wrong and that the authors’ position violates medical ethics requiring patient consent before use or disclosure of...
March 28th, 2005
Though lauded as a standard-bearer for medical privacy nationwide, a federal law that took effect in April doesn’t seem to be doing Clif Poole...
March 13th, 2005
Practices which helped neighbors stay connected in this community of 1,200 and others like it across the country are largely gone — partly because...
March 8th, 2005
Howard Miller’s office is primed for privacy. The computers have plastic shields to ward off prying eyes. The patient files are coded by number,...
February 14th, 2005
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott ruled Friday that the state’s public information law takes precedence over a far-reaching federal medical privacy law, a legal...
February 10th, 2005
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20201
Dear Secretary Leavitt:
The undersigned members of the more than 100 health care organizations that make up...
February 6th, 2005
Harvard’s student newspaper, The Crimson, found massive security problems in Harvard’s web site, including the ability to look up prescription records, medical records, and...
February 1st, 2005
Response to health IT czar David Brailer’s request for feedback on his national health information network has been enthusiastic. The Office of the National...
