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Tune Into The Kroll Webcast On The Security of Patient Data - Brian Klepper

By Brian Klepper Exclusive to THCB: A couple weeks ago I pointed to a new study, commissioned by Kroll Fraud Solutions and conducted by HIMSS Analytics, that makes startlingly clear the gap between what most health systems are doing to...
April 22, 2008 in Brian Klepper, Electronic Medical Records, Privacy, The Industry | Permalink | Comments (0)

The Security of Patient Data

By Brian Klepper EXCLUSIVE TO THCB: HIMSS Analytics, the research arm of the powerful, thoughtful and highly regarded Health Information Management Systems Society, has published a sobering study, Security of Patient Data - see here - that highlights the gap...
April 8, 2008 in Brian Klepper, Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, Hospitals, Privacy, Technology, The Industry, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (1)

A Different Right to Privacy

By Eric Novack Given Matthew's quite visceral response to some complaints that broad-based, government-encouraged (mandated, I suspect), electronic medical records I am interested in both his and THCB readers' thoughts on the Bangor Daily News editorial staff's approach to health...
March 19, 2008 in Electronic Medical Records, Eric Novack, Privacy | Permalink | Comments (9)

Google, the Cleveland Clinic and the Privacy Zealots

So Modern Healthcare's Joseph Conn has a whole page to write about the Cleveland Clinic and he writes just about HIPAA and the fact that this pilot is not going to be covered by it. Writing in the San Francisco...
February 24, 2008 in Electronic Medical Records, Google, Privacy | Permalink | Comments (7)

Where have all the savings gone, long time passing? by Eric Novack

Where have all the savings gone, long time passing? I am not the first to comment on this New England Journal of Medicine article, but it does deserve a place here at THCB. It has been the dogma of many...
February 23, 2008 in Electronic Medical Records | Permalink | Comments (9)