Is Your Dr. “Googling” You?
March 24th, 2010
Deborah Peel appeared on CNBC's Street Signs for a discussion on Doctors going online for additional patient information without patient consent
What could your health records reveal? Take control. Protect your privacy, liberty and opportunities.
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VA investigating security breach of veterans’ medical data
March 9th, 2010
The Veterans Affairs Department’s inspector general has launched a criminal investigation into a physician assistant’s alleged downloading of veterans’ clinical data at...
Ethics Debate Over Blood From Newborn Safety Tests
February 8th, 2010
A critical safety net for babies — that heel prick of blood taken from every newborn — is facing an ethics attack.
Open Source Research
October 9th, 2009
See the Government Health IT article: NCI to open research grid to cancer patient ‘army’
Women desperate to cure breast cancer are contributing...
Healthcare moving to Cloud Computing
August 15th, 2009
Joe Conn looks more deeply into the problems of ‘cloud’ computing for the storage, exchange, and analysis of health data. See his article...
Security and Hacking, Real Fears
August 4th, 2009
See the WSJ Article: New Epidemic Fears: Hackers
Securing health records in small doctor’s offices and clinics is not easy: small offices can’t...
On HealthDataRights.org and their Declaration
June 23rd, 2009
HealthDataRights.org supports only ACCESS to personal health data–which is a no-brainer and a right Americans have always had. The stimulus bill makes clear that...
Data-mining: Australia Just Calls It Something Else
May 19th, 2009
In Australia, the data mining industry pays doctors to sell patients’ prescription records. In the US they pay pharmacies, hospitals, and PBMs. See Article.
A complaint...
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...
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...