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NewsHealth attorney: Google's new privacy policy does not violate HIPAA
Could Google's new privacy policy violate of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act? That's the concern of several members of Congress, who late last week discussed their worries Read more...
HealthTap gets $11.5M investment to fund interactive health network
HealthTap, a company that enables patients to get their online medical questions answered by physicians for free, has received financial investments totaling $11.5 million from venture capital firms. Read more...
Cost, usability keep many docs skeptical of health IT
About half of physicians responding to a Wolters Kluwer survey said their practices had embraced health information technology, including clinical decision support tools. But 44 percent of the Read more...
Patient privacy concerns loom large as providers shift to the cloud
The cloud is all the rage today, and healthcare providers are storing personal health information (PHI) on remote servers for an increasing variety of purposes. In a commentary on iHealthBeat, Read more...
How far has Google Health really fallen?
John Moore of Chilmark Research, a respected health IT industry blogger, suggested this week that Google Health is "cryogenically" frozen in place after the disbanding of most of its development Read more...
OCR invites state AGs to gear up for HIPAA security crackdown
The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in the Department of Health and Human Services is expanding its fight against HIPAA security and privacy violations, as mandated by the HITECH Act. The OCR, a Read more...
HHS sets rules for PHRs, plans and providers to notify consumers of privacy breaches
What used to be a state-by-state matter--in which a patchwork of laws offered some limited protection when their health data was breached--now has become a national standard. HHS has issued new Read more...
DoD expanding personal health record
Having successfully completed a pilot test, the Department of Defense is moving to expand its personal health record. The PHR, MiCare, allows military members, their families and veterans to access Read more...
Google spending big bucks on health IT lobbying
Wondering how big a stake Google feels it has in the progress of health IT rules under the stimulus package? Well, at least $880,000 worth, according to federal reports tracking lobbying activities Read more...
PHRs face serious growing pains
In theory, PHRs seem like a nifty idea, allowing patients to make their clinical and administrative information available to any provider that can access a web browser. Doctors and hospitals save the Read more...
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