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...
DNA Destruction
March 9th, 2010
In the weeks before state health officials destroyed more than 5 million newborn blood samples they had stored without consent, privacy advocates, parents and...
Locking down privacy: Where do we draw the line?
March 1st, 2010
Patient privacy dates back to ancient Greece, beginning with the physician and teacher Hippocrates, who is often called the father of...
New privacy rules, old technology creating a lot of headaches
February 12th, 2010
What’s driving people craziest about the big national push to convert to EMRs? Maybe it’s the technology that some people don’t like. Maybe it’s...
Patient Privacy Rights Wants You to Know How Health Data Is Used
December 7th, 2009
Lora Bentley spoke with Ashley Katz, the executive director for Patient Privacy Rights, a national non-profit consumer health privacy watchdog, just before...
Patient Privacy Rights unveils PHR report card
December 3rd, 2009
Are personal health records privacy risks? Most people are at a loss trying to figure that out, according to the Patient Privacy...
Patient Privacy Rights grades five PHRs
December 2nd, 2009
Platforms provided by employers and insurers received an “F” rating from the report card.
…Katz said PPR could not grade the Partners/Programs on...
Group Finds Privacy Holes in Digital Health Records
December 2nd, 2009
A consumer watchdog group is warning that many leading electronic medical record systems don’t do enough to secure sensitive patient information
“We’re alarmed...
Patient Privacy Rights grades PHRs
December 2nd, 2009
Patient Privacy Rights has issued a privacy-oriented report card on some of the available PHRs (personal health records).
Inspection of the summary chart...