Diana Manos of Health IT News writes: Members of a federal healthcare IT advisory panel workgroup considered recommendations Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how best to push personal health records. CDC is one of the few federal agencies making headway in using the Internet in all its various forms to…
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Ending Secrecy: Physician Makes Case for Full Disclosure of Health Records
Ted Eytan, M.D., M.P.H., writes about the benefits of providing full disclosure of health records to the patient: My first exposure to the “for doctors’ eyes only” concept of the medical record occurred in high school, when I was working in a community hospital, and a patient waiting for a diagnostic exam began thumbing through…
MN: Genetic testing
Michael Marchio writes on the Minnesota Public Radio site: The Senate had a pretty light day today, approving a few bills and then recessing to take up the bovine tuberculosis bill, but the House has a whopper of a debate on genetic testing of newborn babies. SF3138, sponsored by Rep. Paul Thissen (DFL-Minneapolis) […] Rep….
Cutting to chase of Personal Health Record debate
Dana Blankenhorn blogs on ZDnet: The New England Journal of Medicine has entered the debate over Personal Health Records (PHRs) with four articles, all with different perspectives, all with the full text behind their registration firewall. So let’s cut to the chase. I’ve seen this play out in a host of industries over the years – news,…
State law jeopardizes medical privacy for school employees
A press release from the Michigan Education Association: Medical privacy for public school employees in at least one district has been jeopardized by a new state law, a troubling twist in the continuing controversy over Public Act 106. Scores of districts have sought bids from prospective health insurers since P.A. 106 took effect, as the…
Warning on Storage of Health Records
Steve Lohr writes in the New York Times: In an article in The New England Journal of Medicine, two leading researchers warn that the entry of big companies like Microsoft and Google into the field of personal health records could drastically alter the practice of clinical research and raise new challenges to the privacy of…