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...

Financial System vs. Healthcare System

May 12th, 2009
The financial system is often lauded as being good at protecting Americans’ sensitive financial and demographic data, but the evidence is not so clear....

First HIT Policy Committee Meeting on Stripping Privacy Away?

May 11th, 2009
No surprise the new HIT Policy committee is gearing up to eliminate privacy, i.e. patient control over personal health information, using the excuse that...

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...

Reducing Cost or Care? Orszag on HIT

May 4th, 2009
Fascinating ‘insider’ article on the budget process and the Orzag/Obama plan to reduce healthcare costs by building a health IT system ‘wired’ for data...