May 22nd, 2008
Patient privacy advocates were busy last week, lobbying for and getting new privacy provisions in the stalled Wired for Health Care Quality Act, authored...
May 19th, 2008
Google on Monday launched Google Health, a long-anticipated medical records service letting US users store and manage their health care information online.
The offering raises...
May 19th, 2008
Online advertising has ballooned into a roughly $45 billion-a-year business, to the benefit of Google, Yahoo, ad networks, and innumerable speciality and hobbyist Web...
May 19th, 2008
Most people have come to understand that it is important to choose a complex password and to change their passwords often in order to...
May 1st, 2008
“While authors of the recently passed Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (H.R. 493) had good intentions, the bill inadvertently legalizes the sharing of...
May 1st, 2008
The Sun’s article on the Senate’s vote to bar discrimination based on the results of genetic testing (“Measure would bar use of information by...
May 1st, 2008
The incomes of every Italian citizen were published on the web without any prior warning by the government, just days before it was due...
April 29th, 2008
Hospital or first-time doctor visits all start with the same clipboard. Use it to fill out sensitive personal information and scrawl a signature on...
April 29th, 2008
Sandee Pingatore was determined to find out why her son, Troy, 29, had died in a California hospital while being treated for a drug...
April 28th, 2008
When it comes to protecting the privacy of patients’ computerized information, the main threat the health-care industry faces isn’t from hackers, but from itself.
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