Insurers: Records weren’t lost at health fair

October 22nd, 2010
Insurance company exposes 285,691 people’s sensitive demographic and health information to loss, sale, identity theft, and medical identity theft for reasons that don’t make...

PPR on article: What ‘Patient-Centered’ Should Mean…

April 12th, 2010
It is extremely helpful that the nominee to head of one of the largest federal agencies, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), stated...

Interviews

February 22nd, 2010
Visit our Interview Page to see an archive of interviews Patient Privacy Rights took part in. Here are just a few: Charting a New...

Re-Identification. From Netflix to Health Records.

October 17th, 2009
Today’s NY Times story points out the FACT that is very easy to re-identify supposedly “de-identified” information. Singer starts with how the...

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...

Stimulating Health IT

March 10th, 2009
Health Affairs Briefing: Deborah Peel, MD, founder & chair of Patient Privacy Rights, represents consumers in a discussion of Health Information Technology and how...

Electronic Health Records wired for abuse

March 29th, 2008
“Oops! They did it to Britney again.” No, it’s not a song parody, but a reflection of the poor state of American health privacy...