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UK doctors' cautious backing to online records

Posted on August 15, 2009 by Dissent

Doctors in the county have supported proposals to allow the public to view and amend their medical records online. The suggestion, put forward by the Conservatives this week, is part of plans to give patients more control over their individual records. Patients would be able to log in online to access their records, add details…

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The FISMA challenge

Posted on August 15, 2009 by Dissent

Federal healthcare officials are trying to figure out how to remove— or at least significantly reduce—what they say is a barrier to their ability to share health information with the private sector. The obstacle is the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), a set of information security requirements that were mandated for U.S. federal government…

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Child DNA donors should have their say

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Dissent

Biobanks should revamp how they handle DNA from healthy children, says an international team of bioethics experts. Children whose parents have signed them up for long-term studies should not have their genetic data distributed or made public until the donors consent at an older age, says the team, which publishes its recommendations today in Science….

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Nationalized health care, stimulus and privacy rights

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Dissent

John D. Penn, a partner in corporate law firm Haynes & Boone, has a commentary in the Fort Worth Business Press. He argues that: Creating one set of national health records for everyone (enacted in the 2009 economic stimulus law) and requiring all healthcare providers to be substantial users is an irreversible step toward nationalized…

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Your Prescription Data has been Sold for Profit

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Dissent

Annual Medical Report comments on the New York Times article about the sale of prescription data: However, the New York Times article failed to mention prescription data providers Ingenix, owned by UnitedHealth Group Inc., and Milliman, Inc. For example, one of Milliman, Inc.’s information exchange products, IntelliScript, is: “a data aggregation service that provides individual…

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Google, Microsoft execs criticize Obama's EHR plan

Posted on August 9, 2009 by Dissent

Top executives at Google and Microsoft sharply questioned the structure of the Obama administration’s $20 billion health information technology plan at a meeting of a presidential technology council on Thursday. […] [David Blumenthal, national coordinator for health information technology] emphasized the importance of ensuring patient privacy in a national health system and said unless there…

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