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NewsMajority of Americans want personal control of health information
It's hard to get Americans to agree on much these days, but overwhelming majorities seem to want control over their own electronic health information. A poll from Dr. Deborah Peel's Patient Privacy Read more...
Markle survey shows strong consumer, physician support for 'blue button' downloads
Remember the idea of adding a "blue button" to EMR screens to make it easy to output personal health data? The Markle Foundation, which has been leading the campaign, has released a study showing Read more...
When it comes to quality, word-of-mouth just doesn't cut it
Wednesday morning in New York, attendees at the Strategic Social Media in Healthcare conference will hear from the Pew Internet & American Life Project about how to engage "health Read more...
HHS blasts CMS's HIPAA enforcement program
A new report from the HHS Inspector General's has ripped into CMS for doing a bad job of enforcing the HIPAA security rule. In its own investigation, the IG found that when it conducted its own Read more...
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