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...
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New privacy rules, old technology creating a lot of headaches
February 12th, 2010
What’s driving people craziest about the big national push to convert to EMRs? Maybe it’s the technology that some people don’t like. Maybe it’s...
Living Online: Privacy and Security Issues in a Digital Age
November 3rd, 2009
Deborah Peel, MD spoke on a panel with three others at the American Constitution Society’s Conference.
A Start to Securing PHI?
May 6th, 2009
Sometimes press releases for new products tell us far more about the risk of identity theft in electronic health systems than the mainstream press...
HIPAA Privacy Complaints Drop by 35% in November
December 1st, 2008
OCR said it received only 421 complaints in its HIPAA privacy enforcement program in November 2008 for a total of 40,669 complaints since the...
CMS criticized for lax enforcement of HIPAA security rules
November 24th, 2008
Agency officials disputed the OIG findings but agreed to enhance compliance-assurance activities.
… Patients’ privacy depends on the security of health information, said Deborah C....
Reinstate e-health privacy
November 20th, 2008
Most people believe the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act protects the privacy of health information.
Unfortunately, that is a myth....
Case Western Reserve University professors call for regulation of electronic health records
October 30th, 2008
Cost and security concerns about bringing health care record keeping into the 21st century through electronic health records (EHR) have led to a call...
Response to: Will Technology Cure Health Care — Or Kill It?
October 22nd, 2008
Giving your genome to a for-profit corporation for testing today is a very dangerous act for the following reasons:
1) Americans NO longer have the...
Your own health ID number
October 20th, 2008
It’s been a decade since federal legislation called for the creation of a unique patient identifier — a number carried by each American linking...