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...
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Exploring Privacy: An FTC Roundtable Discussion
March 17th, 2010
Dr. Deborah Peel, PPR founder and chair, was part of a panel discussion put together by the Federal Trade Commission exploring the privacy challenges...
BMA calls for roll-out of electronic patient records to be suspended
March 10th, 2010
The BMA has written to the government calling for a suspension of the programme to upload summaries of patients’ medical records in England...
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...
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.
Bill O’Reilly is REALLY worried about the loss of his personal medical privacy…
July 24th, 2009
So much so that he repeatedly returned to the topic while debating health care reform last night.
See Editorial with Video
68% of Americans...
UK Handing off their health records?
July 6th, 2009
Federal Computer Week: U.K. mulls handing off national health records to Microsoft, Google
It will be interesting to see which one the UK...
UK Handing off their health records?
July 6th, 2009
Federal Computer Week:U.K. mulls handing off national health records to Microsoft, Google
It will be interesting to see which one the UK chooses. Microsoft joined...
But privacy is ALREADY gone!
June 22nd, 2009
Refer to Wall Street Journal article: Is Government Health Care Constitutional?
The authors fear that Americans’ health privacy rights will be eliminated by health reform...
HIMSS & Who is Promoting HIT in Stimulus Spending?
May 17th, 2009
This story tells how HIMSS and Harvard’s Blackford Middleton promoted spending billions on health IT in the stimulus bill.
HIMSS and Blackford believe that health...