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InternetNews January 15, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Senate Mulls Stimulus Funds for Health IT Experts tell lawmakers that stimulus funding could improve patient care and lower expenses. But some see the risk of haphazard spending ahead. |
InternetNews January 15, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
How Should Congress Handle Health IT? E-healthcare advocates outline priorities as Congress mulls digital overhaul of medical industry. |
InternetNews June 3, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Privacy a Stumbling Block in Healthcare IT Government's push for universal electronic health records brings tech firms into thorny privacy debate. |
InternetNews December 18, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
E-Healthcare Gets Federal Mandate Department of Health and Human Services unveils best practices for ensuring patient privacy with online medical records, Medicare pushes e-prescriptions. |
InternetNews January 14, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Web Firms, Advocates Draw Lines in Privacy Fight With reforms to the Privacy Act looming on the congressional agenda, how will Internet companies be affected? |
InternetNews February 6, 2009 David Needle |
IBM's Shot in the Arm for Google Health Tech IBM helps the Google's online health records initiative. But where does privacy fit in? |
InternetNews November 11, 2010 |
Data Breaches Cost Hospitals $6B A Year: Study Ponemon Institute report finds that healthcare organizations suffer an average of 2.4 data breaches a year, costing in excess of $2 million per incident. |
CIO December 15, 2009 Kim S. Nash |
Data Sharing That Benefits Customers At Children's Hospital Boston, sharing more data, securely, promises healthier, more satisfied patients. |
Managed Care April 2001 Michael Levin-Epstein |
President's Privacy-Rule Review Creates Controversy, Confusion The final medical privacy regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) stand out in terms of controversy and confusion. The end game is still cast in doubt... |
InternetNews December 2, 2009 |
Privacy Group Warns of Digital Health Records Patient Privacy Rights issues report card showing wide variations in privacy safeguards in electronic health offerings. |
InternetNews August 17, 2009 |
Patients Warm to Digital Records, Docs Shun Web It's hit-and-miss for the latest trends in health IT, according to findings from a new IBM study. |
Insurance & Technology August 18, 2010 Nathan Golia |
Insurers Take Lead in EHR Implementation With guidelines for meaningful use of electronic health records established, health carriers expect IT improvements on the provider side to lower healthcare costs by reducing care redundancies and readmissions. |
InternetNews January 10, 2007 Roy Mark |
Data Mining Giving Privacy the Shaft? Democrats use privacy rights as first issue before Senate Judiciary Committee. |
InternetNews July 1, 2005 Roy Mark |
Senators Prescribe Health IT Legislation Bill explores ways to apply latest information technology to nation's health records. |
InternetNews June 18, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
House Leaders Moving Closer to Privacy Bill Joint subcommittee hearing continues probe of behavioral targeting, with legislation expected by year's end. |
Nursing Management April 2010 Lisa A. Gallagher |
Revisiting HIPAA The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 Privacy and Security Rules have been in effect since 2002-03. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Robert N. Charette |
Dying for Data A comprehensive system of electronic medical records promises to save lives and cut health care costs -- but how do you build one? The many technical, social, and political issues are also formidable. |
InternetNews June 5, 2007 Roy Mark |
Former Lawmakers Push E-Health on The Hill Coalition aims to pressure Congress to provide funding for an electronic medical records network. |
InternetNews January 25, 2011 |
Lawmakers Call for ISP Data-Retention Rules Under pressure from law enforcement agencies that service providers delete subscriber records too quickly, House panel airs bipartisan support for retention mandate. |
Insurance & Technology August 4, 2009 John Reynolds |
Electronic Health Records: A Place to Start, Not a Destination End-game electronic health record solutions need to focus on integrating individuals' health with wealth and making it personal and actionable in a consumer-directed healthcare world. |
BusinessWeek October 24, 2005 Timothy J. Mullaney |
Protecting Patients' Privacy President Bush's health-tech czar has a plan to ensure that health records stored on a national network don't fall into the wrong hands. |
InternetNews March 8, 2007 Roy Mark |
Gates' Washington Trip a Privacy Affair Congress should pass 'milestone' national uniform privacy standard says Microsoft chairman. |
PC World February 20, 2001 Jennifer O'Neill |
Congress Navigates a Flood of Net Privacy Bills Lawmakers, industry juggle e-commerce and consumer concerns in review of longtime (and new) proposals... |
InternetNews February 6, 2007 Roy Mark |
Concealment a Crime in Latest Data Breach Bill Additional legislation calls for criminal penalties for concealing breaches and consumer notification of 'significant' breaches. |
InternetNews August 25, 2010 |
Security, EMRs Top Healthcare IT Priorities With new government regulations placing even more responsibility and scrutiny on the healthcare industry, IT administrators are struggling to deliver both efficiency and security. |
The Motley Fool January 30, 2009 Brian Orelli |
The Health Benefits of Obama's IT Obsession Digital health records are on their way. Which companies are ready to benefit from this new technology? |
Managed Care September 2002 |
New Privacy Regulations Almost Certain To Be Tested The Bush administration is moving to loosen health-privacy protections by requiring that providers tell patients about their privacy rights and make only a "good-faith effort" to get a written acknowledgement of that notice. |
InternetNews March 6, 2008 Susan Kuchinskas |
See My Profile on MyDisease Do privacy concerns about putting personal health information online outweigh the benefits? |
BusinessWeek October 15, 2007 Jay Greene |
Microsoft Wants Your Health Records Microsoft's new service will store your data in one place - and search ads could make it pay. |
InternetNews July 28, 2006 Roy Mark |
A Healthy House Vote For IT After languishing in two different committees for months, the U.S. House Thursday finally approved the Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2005. |
Information Today April 21, 2011 George H. Pike |
House and Senate Propose Online Privacy 'Bill of Rights' Legislation The face of online privacy could change dramatically if legislation recently introduced in Congress becomes law. |
Nursing Management September 2010 Richard Hader |
The evidence that isn't... Interpreting research When patients seek a healthcare practitioner for services, they believe that the delivered care is based on proven science. But reality is far from patient perception. In fact, most care is still based on anecdote, not evidence. |
Salon.com October 6, 2000 Simson Garfinkel |
Mano a mano with John McCain At a committee hearing on online privacy, the senator asks me some tough questions and doesn't like what he hears... |
InternetNews September 25, 2008 Judy Mottl |
ISPs Vow Self-Regulation to Curb Data Misuse In the wake of the NebuAd uproar, Verizon, AT&T and Time Warner act before the government steps in, while pointing fingers at privacy abuses elsewhere. |
CIO September 23, 2009 Maryfran Johnson |
Healthy Attitude President Obama's federal stimulus package boosts the IT impact on healthcare. |
InternetNews September 22, 2010 |
Senate Ponders Update of Electronic Privacy Act Twenty four years after the passage of the ECPA, much has changed in the way companies and governments collect, store and share electronic data. |
CRM June 2012 Leonard Klie |
Modern Medicine: A Marketing Headache When it comes to customer self-service, the medical industry is far ahead of many other verticals in its use of technology, but customer use of those options is still far from prevalent. |
InternetNews September 14, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
Google Calls For Global Privacy Standards Google goes on the offense in Europe over privacy concerns. |
CIO September 23, 2009 Kim S. Nash |
Booster Shot for E-Health How federal stimulus spending will impact the rollout of electronic medical records. |
CIO January 1, 2002 Stephanie Viscasillas |
Privacy Versus the FBI The antiterrorism law President Bush signed in late October makes it easier for officials investigating potential terrorist activity to get court orders to search companies' business records. It is important to take that into account in your privacy policy. |
InternetNews October 20, 2009 |
Privacy Still Dogs Electronic Health Records New study highlights security shortcomings with the ways medical facilities are digitizing patients' records. |
InternetNews March 9, 2006 Roy Mark |
Phone Data Privacy Bill Heats Up in Senate Momentum for a telephone data privacy bill began building in the U.S. Senate Wednesday, with Sen. George Allen introducing legislation to outlaw the acquiring, selling or soliciting of someone else's phone records without their express consent. |
InternetNews March 5, 2008 Susan Kuchinskas |
Eyeing the Personal Health Portal Can Google and Microsoft transform health care the way they changed business? |
Managed Care April 2000 Mark D. Abruzzo, J.D. |
Despite What You Hear, State Privacy Statutes No Threat to DM In Managed Care's November 1999 issue, Al Lewis, president of the Disease Management Association of America, wrote about potential pitfalls facing DM. One identified by Lewis was state privacy laws, a topic that merits further attention.... |
Managed Care December 2002 Fox et al. |
Modified HIPAA Privacy Rule Affects Research, Marketing, Security A modified rule allows the use and disclosure of "limited data sets" of personal health information for research, health care operations, or public health activities. These sets do not include direct identifiers, such as name, address, or Social Security number. |
InternetNews March 31, 2006 Roy Mark |
Senate Passes Phone Data Confidentiality Bill A U.S. Senate panel pushed out legislation yesterday that makes it illegal to acquire, use or sell a person's confidential phone records without affirmative written consent. |
InternetNews February 28, 2008 |
Google Eyes Medical Records, Data Sharing Business Google has unveiled a plan to help U.S. patients gain control of their medical records and is working with doctors' groups, pharmacies and labs to help them securely share sensitive health data. |
Managed Care April 2002 |
HHS Applies 'Common Sense' To Privacy Regs In what is being hailed -- or scorned, depending upon the source -- as a major victory for the health care industry, the Bush administration has issued proposed revisions to privacy regulations... |
CIO July 15, 2002 Sarah Johnson |
Privacy Opt-In or Cop-Out? CIOs will have more to worry about if a controversial bill that lets consumers sue companies that misuse their information continues to move through Congress. |
InternetNews January 11, 2011 |
Judiciary Chair Planning IP, Privacy Bills As the Senate Judiciary Committee gets rolling in the new session of Congress, Chairman Patrick Leahy offers details of an ambitious agenda that will tackle several key tech issues. |