Health information technology: benefits and problems

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

For those interested in Colorado politics ( Colorado HB 1330) and medical privacy, check out this summary of a recent study by published by the National Center for Policy Analysis. Although many proponents discuss the perceived benefits of health information technology (HIT), missing from the debate is an honest ...

Colorado HB 1330 threatens your medical privacy

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Watch Jon Caldara, Linda Gorman, and Amy Oliver discuss how ObamaCare and Colorado HB 1330 threaten your medical privacy. Part 1is about ObamaCare's mandatory insurance and new taxes. Part 2 discusses HB 1330, which puts your medical history into a government database: Transparency is about taxpayers being able to watch government, ...

Are your medical records secure?

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

From Debora C. Peek of Patient Privacy Rights in the Wall Street Journal: ... President Barack Obama said that his administration wants every American to have an electronic health record by 2014, and last year's stimulus bill allocated over $36 billion to build electronic record systems. Meanwhile, the ...

Colorado HB 10-1330: All-payer data base makes your medical history transparent

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Linda Gorman, director of the Independent Institute's Health Care Policy Center, summarizes this bill and how it's bad for Coloradans. Here's a list of her main points: What the Bill Does: Gives the Executive Director of Health Care Policy and Financing the power to create a database to collect and ...