Press release: “The majority of consumers place some importance on whether a physician has electronic health records when choosing a physician and would be willing to pay for the service, according to research results released today by Accenture. The goal of the research, a survey of 600 U.S. consumers and interviews with more than 100… Continue Reading
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Privacy Forum Seeks Controls Over Gov't Use of Patient Genetic Data
“The World Privacy Forum filed public comments with the Department of Health and Human Services in response to an HHS request for information regarding the use of patients’ genetic data for research, health care, and for use in electronic health records. The World Privacy Forum is requesting that HHS use all Fair Information Principles in… Continue Reading
GAO Report on Health Information Technology
Health Information Technology: Early Efforts Initiated but Comprehensive Privacy Approach Needed for National Strategy, Full text GAO-07-400T, and Highlights, February 1, 2007: “GAO identified key challenges associated with protecting electronic personal health information in four areas.” Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com for January 2007
Table of Contents for LLRX.com – January 15, 2007 issue: Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide, by Sabrina I. Pacifici The Impact of Social Networking Tools and Guidelines to Use Them, by LaJean Humphries The Blog – Another Tool in Your Arsenal, by Janet Peros Faulkner’s Practical Web Strategies for Attorneys: How the Web… Continue Reading
The Best (and Worst!) of Legal Technology 2006 From FindLaw
“The world of Legal Technology has…had its share of ups and downs in 2006, with companies spying on their boards, the treasury department spying on money transfers, and the government spying on, well, everyone! With all the spying going on, data security was certainly on everyone’s mind in 2006, and several key stories arose out… Continue Reading
FasterCures Releases Report Calling for Inclusion of Clinical Research in Nationwide Health Information Network
Press release: “Building clinical research into the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) will enable faster discovery and verification of treatments and cures, according to a report released today by FasterCures. The report, Ensuring the Inclusion of Clinical Research in the Nationwide Health Information Network, details steps to help speed the implementation of Electronic Health Record… Continue Reading
U.S. Deputy AG Mcnulty Revises Charging Guidelines for Prosecuting Corporate Fraud
Press release: “U.S. Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty announced today during a speech at a meeting of the Lawyers for Civil Justice in New York that the Department of Justice is revising its corporate charging guidelines for federal prosecutors throughout the country. The new guidance revises the Thompson Memorandum, which was issued in January… Continue Reading
GAO Audit of Navy Marine Corps Intranet
Information Technology: DOD Needs to Ensure That Navy Marine Corps Intranet Program Is Meeting Goals and Satisfying Customers, Full-text GAO-07-51, and Highlights, December 8, 2006. “The Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) is a 10-year, $9.3 billion information technology services program. Through a performance-based contract, the Navy is buying network (intranet), application, and other hardware and… Continue Reading
White Paper on Framework for Networked Personal Health Information
Markle Foundation – Connecting Americans to Their Health Care: A Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information (41 pages, PDF): “A white paper that describes a networked environment in which consumers could establish secure electronic connections with multiple entities that hold personal health information about them. The paper discusses how consumer participation in networked environments… Continue Reading
FBI Audit of Sentinel Investigative Case Management System
Sentinel Audit II: Status of the Federal Bureau of Investigations Case Management System (Redacted), Audit Report 07-03, December 2006 (PDF – Full Report) Comment Of Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Ranking Member And Incoming Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee, On DOJ OIG Report On FBI Computer System Project, December 4, 2006: “Todays finding by the Department of… Continue Reading
USACM Urges Feds to Adopt Software Independent E-voting Systems
U.S. Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery: “…the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a paper recommending that federal standards allow certification only for “software independent” (i.e. ones that create a paper trail) e-voting systems. A key technical panel will consider and vote upon the recommendations this [week]. Calling these… Continue Reading
Electronically Stored Information Target of New Rules
The Third Branch: “On December 1, 2006, amendments to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 16, 26, 33, 34, 45 and revisions to Form 35 will take effect unless Congress enacts legislation to reject, modify or defer them. These amendments and revisions are all aimed at one particular area of discoveryelectronically stored information, meaning all information… Continue Reading
