By Cohen Coberly for TechSpot (Lack of) privacy: In late 2019, the world learned that Microsoft had been allowing both third-party contractors and employees to listen to and transcribe user Cortana and Skype voice recordings. Though the news was troubling for privacy activists, …
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EHR Interoperability Remains Elusive
John Commins, Senior editor, HealthLeaders Media, November 8, 2013 A lack of standards, privacy concerns, and proprietary and competition issues are just a few of the hurdles hampering the interoperability of EHR data among participants in health information exchanges. Healthcare providers have …
3 in 4 Patients Want E-mail Consultations with Doctors
From Health Leaders Media article by Ryan Chiavetta, November 1, 2013 Research reveals a large discrepancy between how parents say they would like to communicate with pediatricians and how they actually do communicate with doctors. Three quarters (77%) of parents said they …
Is your doctor spying on your tweets? Social media raises medical privacy questions
Article by Art Caplan, Ph.D. NBC News, Oct. 21, 2013 A friend recently brought to my attention a disturbing question from a psychiatrist working with a transplant team: Should she be checking the sobriety claims of liver transplant candidates by looking on …
Struck by Turtle: Anticipating a New Healthcare-Billing System
From article on Atlantic.com by Richard Gunderman dated Sep 30 2013 T minus 12 months and counting until physicians and hospitals must comply with the federal government’s October 1, 2014 deadline to implement the ICD-10 system for classifying diseases. Developed by the …
We need a Moore’s Law for medicine
Technology is the primary cause of our skyrocketing health-care costs. It could also be the cure. Article on TechnologyReview.com by Antonio Regalado, September 3, 2013 Moore’s Law predicts that every two years the cost of computing will fall by half. That is …
Walgreens must pay woman $1.44 million over HIPAA violation
From July 26, 2013 Indianapolis News article A Marion County Indiana jury Friday awarded a woman $1.44 million after finding Walgreens and a pharmacist violated her privacy when the pharmacist looked up and shared the woman’s prescription history. The lawsuit filed in …
