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02/20/2013

Health IT Experts Say Interoperability To Be Hot Topic at Annual HIMSS Conference

AudioBrian Edds of AmCom Software and Tom Leary and Joyce Sensmeier of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society spoke with iHealthBeat about what attendees can expect at the upcoming annual HIMSS conference.

12/12/2012

National Football League Readies New EHR System To Boost Care Quality for Players

AudioBrian Ahier of the Mid-Columbia Medical Center, Edward Babakanian, CIO of the University of California-San Diego Health System, Girish Kumar Navani, CEO of eClinicalWorks, and Bill Moreau of the U.S. Olympic Committee spoke with iHealthBeat about the National Football League's recent decision to deploy an electronic health record system.

02/01/2012

Center for Democracy & Technology's McGraw Discusses Health Data Privacy Challenges

VideoDeven McGraw, director of the Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, spoke with iHealthBeat about the challenges of protecting health data privacy.

01/12/2012

Stakeholders Respond to Federal Proposal To Give Patients Full Access to Their Lab Results

AudioKate Christensen of Kaiser Permanente, Jason DuBois of the American Clinical Laboratory Association, Lawrence Hughes of the American Hospital Association and Eva Powell of the National Partnership for Women & Families spoke with iHealthBeat about a new federal proposal to give patients full access to their laboratory results.

11/16/2009

Recent Survey Highlights Need for Health Care Organizations To Strengthen Data Protection

AudioDavid Finn of Symantec, Lisa Gallagher of HIMSS, Susan McAndrew of HHS and Deborah Peel of Patient Privacy Rights spoke with iHealthBeat about a recent HIMSS survey on data security among health care organizations.

10/27/2009

Advocates Raise Concerns About Security of Supposedly De-Identified Patient Health Data

AudioRyan Howard of Practice Fusion, Deborah Peel of Patient Privacy Rights, Dan Rode of AHIMA and Vitaly Shmatikov of the University of Texas-Austin spoke with iHealthBeat about data mining and patient privacy concerns.

06/09/2009

Rise in Health Record Hacking Cases Prompts Re-Examination of Data Protection Methods

AudioInternet security consultant Greg Reber, Shelton Waggener of the University of California-Berkeley and Anne Wallace of the Identity Theft Assistance Center spoke with iHealthBeat about patient data breaches and securing sensitive information.

03/10/2009

Privacy Advocates Support Language in Federal Stimulus Package, But Some Questions Remain

AudioPam Dixon of the World Privacy Forum, Deven McGraw of the Health Privacy Project for the Center for Democracy and Technology, Deborah Peel of Patient Privacy Rights and Robert Zirkelbach of AHIP discussed the provisions with iHealthBeat.

01/29/2009

Report Urges Federal Government To Lead Efforts To Identify, Curb Medical Identity Theft

AudioPam Dixon of the World Privacy Forum, Peter Kaplan of the Federal Trade Commission, Craig May of the American Health Information Management Association, two Booz Allen Hamilton representatives and a health IT legal expert talked with iHealthBeat about medical identity theft.

11/26/2008

Accreditation Group URAC Rolls Out New Standards To Assess HIPAA Compliance

AudioChristine Leyden of URAC, Mike Niederpruem of the American Health Information Management Association, Sue Padgett of Associated Third Party Administrators and Karen Trudel of CMS discussed the standards with iHealthBeat.

11/19/2008

Google's New Flu Tracking Tool Raises Concerns About Internet Users' Privacy, Experts Say

AudioLillie Coney of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Deborah Peel of Patient Privacy Rights and Lisa Winston of the University of California-San Francisco discuss the privacy implications of Google's Flu Trends tool.

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