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National health-record privacy law in Congress

Chuck Miller June 26, 2008

A new law in Congress would require every U.S. citizen to have electronic health records by 2014. It would also set up privacy rules for those records, requiring information keepers to notify patients of security breaches.
 

Privacy standards help safeguard online health data

Dan Kaplan June 26, 2008

Just a few months after Google and Microsoft announced they were launching online consumer health platforms, a nonprofit has unveiled a common framework to protect sensitive medical records.
 

Disgruntled hacker sentenced to five years

Sue Marquette Poremba June 20, 2008

A network engineer and technical services manager for San Diego's Council of Community Health Clinics was sentenced to 63 months in prison on federal hacking charges.
 

Stolen data found on international crimeservers

Chuck Miller June 18, 2008

Two crimeservers containing 500 megabytes of stolen data have been discovered in Argentina and Malaysia. The data was likely being made available online to the highest bidder.
 

Kaiser Permanente partners with Microsoft on health records

Sue Marquette Poremba June 10, 2008

Kaiser Permanente and Microsoft are partnering on a new pilot program to provide patients with better access to their medical records.
 

Health Care Opinions

Palm-vein biometrics help accurately ID patients

Joel Hagberg, vp, marketing and business development, Fujitsu Technology Products July 02, 2008

Palm-vein recognition hits that sweet spot of biometrics between security, cost, accuracy and ease of use that make it an optimal physical and IT access control solution for health care organizations.
 

On the tracks of medical data: Electronic records pressure

Davi Ottenheimer, director of compliance solutions, ArcSight June 18, 2008

The pressure to move records to an electronic format is stronger than ever, but at the same time the risk and awareness of privacy violations are on the rise.
 

Health Care Features

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