From a CDT press release: Today the Center for Democracy & Technology (“CDTâ€) announces the launch of a major project on health privacy and information technology. To fulfill an ambitious agenda CDT is joining forces with the Health Privacy Project, which for ten years has been an independent organization headed by privacy pioneer Janlori Goldman….
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AU: New privacy guidance to assist private health service providers
From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, this media release: The Australian Privacy Commissioner, Karen Curtis, has today issued new privacy guidance materials for medical practitioners and other health service providers and the public. “The new guidance materials are the culmination of an extensive consultation process by my Office, and offer health care professionals and…
FTC to Host Workshop on Innovations in Health Care Delivery
From the FTC: The Federal Trade Commission will host a workshop on April 24, 2008, to examine recent trends related to health care delivery. This workshop will bring together representatives of physician and healthcare associations, industry, privacy groups, academia, federal and state government, and other experts. The workshop participants will engage in several panel discussions…
Health IT execs mull fixes on health record privacy
Maureen McKinney writes in Government Health IT: Health information technology executives this week called for the development and dissemination of a more lucid set of policies on consumer access to health records in order to allay public fears that using a personal health record would put their health privacy at risk. In a Web conference…
Health 2.0: A Promising Prescription (opinion)
TechNewsWorld columnist Sonia Arrison writes: Google’s recent announcement that it is creating a home for personal health records online is a natural outgrowth of Silicon Valley’s Web 2.0 consumer Internet focus. The question this raises is whether a market-driven system is better for keeping health records than one run by the government. Groups like the…
Peel: Congress should stop pandering to health data miners
In today’s Government Health IT Notebook, there is a statement by Deborah Peel, M.D., Founder and Chair of Patient Privacy Rights: The story last week on e-prescribing [“$3 billion annual savings estimated for Medicare e-prescribing,†GovHealthITcom, March 4] does not mention the elephant in the room: that every prescription in the nation has been data-mined…