Federal healthcare IT funding cut short

December 21st, 2007

Federal efforts to advance healthcare IT will have to be made on half the amount President Bush hoped to get for next year. In a...

New Harvard survey casts serious doubt on future of RHIOs

December 11th, 2007

Electronic clinical data exchange across the United States is far from a reality, with few organizations facilitating such exchange and many failing in the...

Doctor organizations’ concerns put brakes on health IT bill

December 10th, 2007

An attempt to quickly pass a Senate health information technology bill was derailed after medical groups raised concerns about its quality measurement, patient privacy...

Ask.com Puts a Bet on Privacy

December 10th, 2007

Will privacy sell? Ask.com is betting it will. The fourth-largest search engine company will begin a service today called AskEraser, which allows users to...

Top newsmakers: Making good on visions deployed in 2007

December 1st, 2007

They dominated the headlines and made bold announcements that created huge impacts in the healthcare industry and across America. Marquee names topped the results in...

Data-miners unite in Maine to block ‘opt-out’ Rx law

November 20th, 2007

The prescription drug data-mining industry opened yet another legal battlefront, this time in Maine, where no less than six firms are involved...

Wired for Health technology bill stalled in Senate

November 16th, 2007

A comprehensive health technology bill that was expected to pass the Senate this week has instead gone back to federal lawmakers for more tinkering,...

Genetic testing co. spurs privacy, ethical questions

November 7th, 2007

A new company that offers genetic testing presents a privacy issue, according to patients’ rights advocates. Navigenics officially launched its company after closing on a...

Maryland board can’t punish doctor for defending privacy of patients

November 5th, 2007

A Maryland appeals court handed a victory to a physician who stood up to the state medical board in defense of his patients’ privacy...

Ethics, respect key to privacy – then IT

November 1st, 2007

It’s been a month abuzz with George Clooney. You know who he is the I’m-not-a doctor-but-I-used-to-play-one-on-TV guy. He was pre-McDreamy handsome as Dr. Doug...