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Leslie Williams Hale reports: At the intersection of health privacy laws and student privacy laws in Florida stand the students themselves. Before a student in Florida can sign up for classes, he or she must provide a medical history to the state university. That medical history is often a simple list of required vaccinations. However…

Karen Kissane reports: …. the federal government will introduce shared electronic health records. If the roll-out goes to plan, by July 1, 2012, any patient will be able to ask their doctor to create one. They will be uploaded on the web to be accessed – with patient permission – by any of the nation’s…

Some days I feel like a health care sector Paula Revere spreading the warning, “the breaches are coming, the breaches are coming!” I just saw this commentary on HealthNewsDigest.com by  Eric Demers, the senior vice president of health and life science at MEDecision: …. We shouldn’t allow overreactions to misperceived weaknesses in EHR security to…

Mary Mosquera reports: By the end of September, information security managers at the Department of Veterans Affairs will have the electronic tools in place that will let them see how vulnerable the one million computers and other devices connected to the VA network are.For the last six months, VA has been deploying multiple software applications…

Google Health has undergone some tweaks. You can read about how Google Health corresponds to — or doesn’t correspond to — HIPAA protections here. Kudos to them for providing a comparison chart. Google Health Privacy Policy can be found here.

I’ve  linked to a number of Evan Schuman’s wonderful articles from databreaches.net, but this article is particularly relevant to this site. Evan writes: When Rite-Aid and Walgreens both announced pharmacist chat programs last month, they were the latest chains to try and use chat to get closer to their customers. But, ironically, the preservation of chat…