April 27th, 2008
With a stroke of his pen, Gov. Ed Rendell created the Pennsylvania Health Information Exchange Governance Structure, which establishes the framework necessary to usher...
April 25th, 2008
A genetic nondiscrimination bill approved Thursday by a Senate panel won’t protect people from potentially losing their jobs or health insurance if the information...
April 21st, 2008
Contrary to popular belief, the ‘P’ in HIPAA does not stand for ‘privacy.’ Rather, HIPAA allows millions of healthcare businesses to snoop in our...
April 18th, 2008
If Deborah Peel, M.D., has her way, there will be no national electronic health and medical record system without a guarantee of patient privacy...
April 10th, 2008
It’s not surprising that hospital employees would be interested in the medical records of celebrities like Maria Shriver, Farrah Fawcett, Britney Spears and George...
April 9th, 2008
In response to recent data breaches, privacy advocates are calling for changes to medical privacy rules to allow patients to control who can access...
April 8th, 2008
The private records of more than 60 patients, including the actress Farrah Fawcett and the state’s first lady, Maria Shriver, were improperly viewed by...
April 3rd, 2008
Senate and industry leaders met on Capitol Hill Wednesday to push a healthcare IT bill that came close to passing by special vote last...
March 24th, 2008
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, informed patients on March 20 that a laptop computer containing...
December 28th, 2007
Each year since 1997, the US-based Electronic Privacy Information Center and the UK-based Privacy International have undertaken what has now become the most comprehensive...
