Privacy concerns surface over ONC data project
March 31st, 2010
Some concern that the National Health Information Network will be a Trojan horse for Big Brother.
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NHIN won’t funnel information to CIA: Blumenthal
March 30th, 2010
National Coordinator of Health IT claims your electronic health records will NOT go to other government or legal organizations.
Your Medical Records Aren’t Secure
March 24th, 2010
4/24/10 A patient's sensitive information should not be shared without his consent. But this is not the case now, as the country moves toward...
But privacy is ALREADY gone!
June 22nd, 2009
Refer to Wall Street Journal article: Is Government Health Care Constitutional?
The authors fear that Americans’ health privacy rights will be eliminated by health reform...
HIMSS & Who is Promoting HIT in Stimulus Spending?
May 17th, 2009
This story tells how HIMSS and Harvard’s Blackford Middleton promoted spending billions on health IT in the stimulus bill.
HIMSS and Blackford believe that health...
Reducing Cost or Care? Orszag on HIT
May 4th, 2009
Fascinating ‘insider’ article on the budget process and the Orzag/Obama plan to reduce healthcare costs by building a health IT system ‘wired’ for data...
Health Affairs Briefing: Stimulating Health Information Technology
March 10th, 2009
Deborah Peel, MD– Founder & Chair of Patient Privacy Rights– is one of the speakers at this open event, happening March 10th, 2009 in...
From Sharing Music to Sharing Medical Records
February 24th, 2009
Scientific American gets it. Do you? View story here.
Dr. Eric Johnson’s latest study is out. Our job is to inform the public and Congress,...
The true problems in HIT
January 30th, 2009
The experts quoted are correct that cost, interoperability, difficulty of use, work-flow disruption, and lack of proof of safety/effectivenss are good reasons not to...
Treasury Moves to Restrict Lobbyists From Influencing Bailout Program
January 28th, 2009
Will we see the same kind of problems the Treasury Dept has had when HHS allocates the 20 Billion in funds for HIT? Will...