Warner touts e-medical data despite hacker attack

A hacker's theft of millions of Virginia's most sensitive prescription drug records isn't slowing Democratic Sen. Mark Warner's push for electronic medical records.

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Ex-California hospital worker in celeb case dies

A former UCLA Medical Center employee who admitted selling medical records of celebrities died in March as she awaited sentencing.

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Study: Few US hospitals use digital records

U.S. hospitals have a long way to go to join the digital age. Fewer than 2 percent have abandoned paper medical charts and completely switched to electronic health records, a new national survey found.

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Wal-Mart to enter electronic medical records arena

As the Obama administration begins investing billions in health information technology, Wal-Mart plans to use its unrivaled size to bring high-tech medical records to U.S. physicians.

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Former UCLA hospital worker admits selling records

A former employee of UCLA Medical Center pleaded guilty Monday to selling information from the medical records of celebrities and high-profile patients, including Britney Spears and Farrah Fawcett, to the National Enquirer.

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Not-guilty plea in celebrity medical snooping case

A former UCLA Medical Center employee has pleaded not guilty to charges that she sold information from Farrah Fawcett's medical records to a celebrity gossip tabloid.

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Lawmaker's Health Data on Stolen Laptop

If there's one person whose medical records you wouldn't want to lose track of, it's the co-chairman of the congressional caucus that focuses on protecting consumers' privacy.

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Electronic Medical Records Use May Rise

Health care advocates have long encouraged physicians to switch to computerized medical records, saying they could improve patient care and increase efficiency. Doctors, however, have been more concerned about the high price tag — often more than $20,000 per physician for software, hardware and Internet connections — as well as having to maintain a computer network. Surveys estimate less than 20 percent of doctors have fully automated their offices.

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Stung by an embarrassing electronic leak last month revealing ethics investigations into dozens of lawmakers, Congress moved Tuesday to prohibit federal employees from using the same type of Internet file-sharing software blamed for the disclosure.

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The family of the student responsible for mass shootings at Virginia Tech has released his recently discovered mental health records to the public.

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For practical reasons, health workers are often unable to talk to home-based patients with chronic conditions on a daily basis – but they could keep an eye on an online medical record that is automatically updated whenever the patient measures their own blood pressure, checks t …

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Description: This organization is "dedicated to ensuring Americans control access to their health records" and that "what you say in the doctor's office should stay in the doctor's office." Includes material about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( …

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The health-care industry's reluctance to digitize its records is rooted in a desire to keep medicine's lucrative business model hidden.

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The hospital where a California woman gave birth to octuplets in January has been fined $250,000 by the state because nearly two dozen medical workers, including doctors, illegally viewed her medical records, according to state health officials.

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This is one of the major concerns when it comes to plans to medical recorda all going electronic. I know Eric Schmidt is in Obama's ear to give Google the go ahead for this endeavor. I don't think there is a 100% safe way to store anything electronically.

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The billions in taxpayer funds—part of the $787 billion economic stimulus—also have energized tech titans General Electric (GE), Intel , and IBM, all of which are challenging Cerner and other traditional medical suppliers.

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The physician in charge of the federal government's massive push to move health care to electronic records from paper files faces "huge challenges" as he starts his new job in Washington this week.

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WASHINGTON - When Dave deBronkart, a tech-savvy kidney cancer survivor, tried to transfer his medical records from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to Google Health, a new free service that lets patients keep all their health records in one place and easily share them with ne …

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Another 8 were 'disciplined' for accessing the records without a good reason.

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Younger physicians are more likely to gravitate to automated systems All medical staff at the VA uses EHR so can the private sector. We can do this folks. American "Health" Care bill in 2009 or Bust!

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WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama's plan to link up doctors and hospitals with new information technology, as part of an ambitious job-creation program, is imperiled by a bitter, seemingly intractable dispute over how to protect the privacy of electronic medical recor …

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President-elect Barack Obama's plan to link up doctors and hospitals with new information technology, as part of an ambitious job-creation program, is imperiled by a bitter, seemingly intractable dispute over how to protect the privacy of electronic medical records.

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What these aides will soon realize is that they aren't history, but passing through it. I learned that from an elderly man who told me "to honor the house" as he emptied my trash bin late my first day at work

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With no indication that Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) presidential campaign will release Gov. Sarah Palin's medical records -- or even a single-page summary -- Palin's spokesmen appear to have lied when they said Palin would release details on her medical history.

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Turning Blue Waiting for Palin Medical Records

The check was in the mail, Sarah Palin basically said, as her medical records were to be released "early this week."

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Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, 65, released his medical records Monday, detailing the treatment of two brain aneurysms in 1988 and other, mostly minor medical problems.Biden has had no subsequent aneurysms and has since undergone appropriate screening, accordin …

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None of the candidates have been forthcoming enough to ensure that no medical problems have been hidden or downplayed. For future elections, Congress should require the nominees to disclose all of their relevant health records.

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Can't Palin Fudge Her Medical Records in Less Than Two Weeks?

Sarah Palin is the youngest of the four major White House candidates, is reported to be athletic and in great shape, yet she is the only one who refused to release her medical records.

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Other candidates who made themselves and their doctors available include the elder George Bush, Bob Dole, Al Gore and John Kerry. A leading example of openness was Ronald Reagan, whose age, 69, had become an issue in the 1980 election. Mr.

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If elected, Senator John McCain of Arizona, 72, the Republican nominee, would be the oldest man to be sworn in to a first term as president and the first cancer survivor to win the office.

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...over 2,600 physicians are calling for the McCain campaign to release his medical records for a thorough review of his treatments for cancer and other diseases. I knew the records were made available to a select number of physicians, ...but didn't realize for only 3 hours.

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Over the last few weeks, the issues of John McCain's age and health have been pushed, with much resistance, back into the heart of the political discussion.

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John McCain has not yet released his medical records to the public. McCain is 72 years old, and has been diagnosed with invasive melanoma.

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