HHS proposes stronger privacy protections under HIPAA
July 12th, 2010
Stimulus bill required HHS to modify HIPAA, and proposed rule will strengthen and modify HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules. See how.
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Discussion on Targeting in the UK using the National Health Service
April 12th, 2010
How would American cancer patients feel about being targeted by political groups?
PR Firm Behind Propaganda Videos Wins Stimulus Contract
March 30th, 2010
The way to promote Health IT is by incorporating Privacy, not marketing through a PR firm with a tricky history.
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...
Health Care’s Digital Privacy Debate
January 25th, 2010
A new study points to distrust in government and private industry when it comes to electronic health records.
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.
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68% of Americans...
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...
The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform
May 16th, 2009
The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform: How an Industry Lobby Scored a Swift, Unexpected Victory by Channeling Billions to Electronic Records
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...