Tag Archives: electronic medical records

I give my perspective on issues of physician privacy in this video from The HealthCare Channel, including:

• Can physicians challenge online review sites such as Health Grades or Vitals.com to have critical patient comments removed?
• The Supreme Court will rule soon on the case against the State of Vermont and the law banning the sale of prescription data to companies for use in marketing to those physicians.  …

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As so often happens following a hospital’s involvement in a high profile event, the Tucson hospital treating the victims of the recent shooting is reported to have fired several staff, presumably for looking at patient records they should not have looked at:

Katie Riley, the Director of Media Relations in the Office of Public Affairs at the

Arizona Health Sciences Center said in a statement:

“University Medical Center takes the privacy of all patients very seriously. … More