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Who Owns Patient Data? | Healthcare IT News
< p > < i > If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the
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Protecting Privacy | Healthcare IT News
<p>As we all implement Meaningful Use stages 1, 2, and 3 from 2011-2015, we will increasingly share data among payers, providers and patients. Protecting privacy is foundational and we should only exchange data per patient preference. How will we achieve that in Massachusetts?</p><p><strong>Stage
ONC to hold hearing on privacy-enhancing technologies | Healthcare IT News
<p>ONC is making history tomorrow the first-ever federal government sponsored hearing on privacy-enhancing technologies.</p>
Attention doctors and vendors: Selling patient data without informed consent is now a federal crime
<p>Another misguided, uninformed EHR vendor will discount the price of EHR software for doctors willing to sell patient data! According to CEO Jonathan Bush,"Athena might be able to halve the amount that physicians pay to use its EHR."<br /> <br />Great business plan: Entice doctors
The risks and flaws of NHIN development | Healthcare IT News
<p>Everyone who cares about the privacy of their PHI should read<a href="http://patientprivacyrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Sweeney-CongressTestimony-4-22-10.pdf">Latanya Sweeney’s written testimony on the NHIN flaws (PDF)</a>.<br /> <br />Her criticisms of the proposed models
Beyond putting patients in control and privacy safeguards in EHRs | Healthcare IT News
<p>In a March 23 opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, Deborah Peel, MD, founder of the Patient Privacy Rights and leader of the bipartisan Coalition for Patient Privacy, argues that unless we put patients in control of their electronic healthcare records and put safeguards in place to
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