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Snooping at Britney's Chart: Why Should Docs and Nurses Have Different Rules?

By Robert Wachter Should doctors and nurses be subject to different penalties for precisely the same infraction? Of course not. Are they? Sure. Just ask Britney Spears. Britney was hospitalized at UCLA at least twice in the past few years...
April 22, 2008 in Nursing, Privacy | Permalink | Comments (5)

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)

Medical Privacy: The Challenge of Behavioral Ad Targeting in Healthcare

By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn The latest piece in the medical privacy jigsaw puzzle is online behavioral advertising. Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received comments from the Network Advertising Initiative NAI on the agency's proposed principles for OBA. As part...
April 16, 2008 in Online Communities, Privacy | Permalink | Comments (3)

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)

HEALTH 2.0: Getting the PHR, Privacy and Deborah Peel issue off my chest

By Matthew Holt I’m a card carrying member of the ACLU. I oppose the Patriot Act. And I absolutely oppose the current Administration's decision to ignore the FISA law that already bends over backwards to help the government spy on...
March 13, 2008 in Health 2.0, Policy, Policy/Politics, Privacy, Technology | Permalink | Comments (9)

More on Google and the Cleveland Clinic

For a start, as I said in my last post and many times, and at least one of these commenters has written at length, the benefits of sharing health data in clinical situations massively outweigh the risk. So that should...
February 25, 2008 in Google, Privacy, Technology | Permalink | Comments (20)

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)