January 15th, 2009
“Before increasing federal spending on health IT, Congress should first fix the already-outdated 1996 HIPAA privacy rule to ensure individuals have control over their...
January 15th, 2009
The economic stimulus package under development by President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats likely will cost almost $850 billion, including up to...
January 15th, 2009
At today’s news conference, the Coalition for Patient Privacy is releasing a letter sent to Congress advocating for the inclusion of privacy...
January 15th, 2009
Privacy and civil liberties advocates are urging lawmakers working on the forthcoming economic stimulus package to ensure that any language to ...
December 24th, 2008
It is fascinating that the DoD clearly believes it owns and can use the personal health information of 12 million active duty military personnel...
December 15th, 2008
Internet security is broken, and nobody seems to know quite how to fix it.
Despite the efforts of the computer security industry and a half-decade...
December 10th, 2008
State legislators introduced more than 370 bills to boost healthcare information technology over an 18-month period in 2007 and 2008, with more than a...
December 10th, 2008
In response to the NYTimes front page article “Thieves Winning Online War, Maybe Even in Your Computer”, Dr. Peel points out the dangers of...
December 9th, 2008
Patients whose physicians “collaborate” with genetic testing corporations should beware. Today, Navigenics and all genetic testing businesses can legally sell genomic data. There is...
December 9th, 2008
Google’s new Flu Trends tool, which collects and analyzes search queries to predict flu outbreaks around the country, is raising concern with privacy groups....
