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ALSO NOTED: Aetna plans to launch personal online health tools; second headline; and much more...

March 17, 2008 — 7:59am ET
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Group to create health data security protection standard

December 10, 2007 — 7:59am ET
A group of participants cutting across the employer, IT vendor and healthcare provider sectors announced last week that they'd come together to create a shared framework for health information... Read more...

AHIMA demands better PHR privacy protections

June 24, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

PHRs are not electronic medical records, exactly--and as some people see it, that's exactly the problem. While EMRs enjoy the same HIPAA protection as paper records do, PHRs don't. AHIMA president Bryon Pickard told Congress that's just wrong. And even if laws in a specific state do target PHRs, when consumers and providers are in different states, the tougher state laws may not apply. As a result, AHIMA would like to see Congress enact uniform laws to cover the use or transmission of …

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A Google vision for health data

June 3, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Over the last few weeks, Google vice president Adam Bosworth has been making the rounds spelling out the search giant's vision for medical data sharing. Among his key points has been that strong authentication will be critical for the kind of online sharing necessary for patients to really benefit. Perhaps to reassure privacy advocates, who have vigorously questioned Google's philosophy of data ownership, Bosworth has been telling audiences that consumers "should own their total personal …

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ALSO NOTED: Consumers prefer EMR users; Louisiana hospitals seek IT dollars; and much more...

May 6, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

> Evidence continues to filter in that consumers actually notice whether their physicians and health plans use EMRs. What's more, it seems that they actually prefer those who do. Article

> Struggling to rebuild its still-wobbly system, Louisiana's charity hospital organization wants millions to improve its health IT infrastructure. Article

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Duke launches doctor-patient portal

February 25, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Duke University has decided to streamline its relationship with doctors and patients, building a web portal which it intends to see become a central hub for such communications. Its "Healthview Portal" is designed to serve the roughly 400,000 to 500,000 patients using its three major hospitals and 100 outpatient clinics. The portal was developed by IBM, which used a SOA strategy for systems integration. It took about 14 weeks to complete the project, which was built on the IBM WebSphere …

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SPOTLIGHT: Cancer patient data from four states is stolen

January 7, 2007 — 8:01pm ET


In what is becoming an uncomfortably familiar scenario, Emory University officials sent out a mass mailing to cancer patients warning them that a laptop containing their personal health information had been stolen. The laptop was stolen from an office of Electronic Registry Systems (ERS), a business contractor in Ohio, which serves Emory Hospital, Emory Crawford Long Hospital and Grady Memorial Hospital. Records lost included names, social security numbers, patient addresses, medical …

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HIPAA case highlights patient legal vulnerability

September 17, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

The recent indictment of a former Florida employee for conspiracy to commit health care fraud with the personal information of more than 1,100 Florida patients probably won't result in big civil fines against the hospital by the federal government--which has yet to sanction a hospital or other health care entity for patient privacy breaches--says a news article in the Florida Naples News.

The case is potentially precedent-setting as it is the first in South Florida to be …

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GAO reports numerous security breaches

September 10, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

Oops. More than 40 percent of federal contractors to the Medicare and Tricare programs and state Medicaid agencies responding to a survey by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said they had experienced privacy breaches involving personal healthcare information of beneficiaries, according to a study of 378 contractors and agencies.

Was outsourcing a factor? Kinda sounds like it. More than 90 percent of Medicare contractors and state Medicaid agencies and 63 percent of …

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