Privacy Issues Raised As Health Records Go Online
June 12th, 2007
Privacy groups are sounding alarms as the nation’s largest insurance companies finalize plans to allow millions more customers to post their health records on...
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ICERx.org: ‘Grand theft,’ not public service
June 11th, 2007
Why is a collaborative made up of the AMA, Informed Decisions, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, National Community Pharmacists Association, RxHub, state Medicaid...
Agencies Report Progress, but Senstive Data Remains At Risk
June 8th, 2007
Federal agencies have recently reported a spate of security incidents that put sensitive data at risk. Personally identifiable information about millions of Americans has...
HIV testing should require consent and promise privacy
June 7th, 2007
T
he lure of federal dollars may be prompting California lawmakers to consider an ill-advised law to make HIV testing routine. But there’s nothing routine...
Price of privacy depends on how you look at it
June 5th, 2007
While people always seem to want what they don’t have, they tend to inflate the value of the things they do have. Economists call...
Google Aims to Extend Data Mantra into Health Care
May 29th, 2007
At Forrester Research’s IT Forum in Nashville on May 16, Google Enterprise Vice President and General Manager David Girouard summed up his company’s product...
Editorial: Violating Privacy Won’t Prevent Tragedies
April 29th, 2007
The world’s hearts and prayers go out to the families of the students and professors who were slain at Virginia Tech. Their deaths are...
Letter: Patient privacy hard to protect, even for advocates
April 24th, 2007
In response to Joseph Conn’s ‘U.S. lagging in EHR privacy policies: report’: Thank you for the update on this important issue of patient privacy....
On Campus: Addicted to Exercise
April 23rd, 2007
During her years at Smith College, Caitlin Scafati battled what’s known as exercise bulimia–a type of eating disorder that drives patients to cut their...
QI programs intrinsic part of care: article
April 17th, 2007
In general, quality improvement programs should be considered “an intrinsic part of good clinical care” and carried out under separate, less stringent rules and...