Public-private sector debate on health IT turns to whose security is weakest

Security concerns remain a major sticking point on electronic health records, health IT in general, and greater levels of health information exchange and interoperability among potential public and private sector participants in those exchanges. An article…

Feds appear committed to cloud computing; potential cost savings outweight security concerns

Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra stressed his belief that the federal government needs to get out of the business of building data centers and managing IT infrastructure, hardware, servers, and application software, and instead should…

Conspiracy theories alive and well on government’s role in health IT

In an otherwise unremarkable meeting of the Health IT Standards Committee on March 24, Dr. David Blumenthal, HHS’ National Coordinator for health IT, made public statements addressing and formally denying rumors that the Office of the…

Employee expectations of privacy in the workplace only improving in very specific contexts

With the current interest focused on revisiting the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), including plans announced by members of both the House and Senate to initiate formal reviews of the 1986 law and the extent to…

NSA loses a round on warrantless wiretapping in federal court

A federal district court judge in San Francisco who has presided over several cases against the National Security Agency (NSA) and its now-defunct warrantless wiretapping program appears to have finally been presented sufficient direct evidence of…