October 14th, 2008
The Kabuki we see in the transition to electronic health records obscures two obvious and fundamental issues: The nature of the confidentiality privilege for...
October 13th, 2008
“Whatever, in connection with my professional practice, or not in connection with it, I may see or hear in the lives of men which...
September 19th, 2008
An HHS office has resolved more than half of complaints about possible violations of the medical privacy rule issued after the passage of the...
September 17th, 2008
Watch out folks, it’s finally happened. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has levied the first penalties against a healthcare agency....
August 19th, 2008
“It’s working, but it’s got a ways to go,” suggests William Braithwaite, chief medical officer of San Diego-based security and identity management company Anakam....
August 19th, 2008
An HHS office has resolved more than half of complaints about possible violations of the medical privacy rule issued after the passage of the...
August 17th, 2008
When Jill went to her doctor two years ago for an operation on her uterus, she didn’t expect that details of her problem would...
July 17th, 2008
Seattle-based Providence Health & Services has agreed to pay $100,000 and take corrective action under an agreement with HHS that resolves potential violations of...
July 14th, 2008
Still, legal experts warn of state civil liabilities for physician practices in such situations.
The latest HIPAA criminal case may signal more aggressive efforts by...
July 10th, 2008
To the Editor: In their Sounding Board article on shifts in health information, Mandl and Kohane (April 17 issue)1 observe that “companies providing PCHRs...
