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Patient Privacy

Medical Privacy for Royalty and the Rest of Us

Robert Klitzman, M.D. | Posted 02.20.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Psychiatry, Medical Ethics, Confidentiality, Psychology, Celebrity, Bioethics, Privacy, Celebrities Medical Privacy, Patient Confidentiality, Patients Privacy, Health Confidentiality, Patient Privacy, Patients Confidentiality, Health Privacy, Health News, Medical Privacy, Celebrity Patient Privacy, Healthy Living News
Robert Klitzman, M.D.

We are not all royalty, but we do deserve medical privacy. I have seen both sides and continue to be amazed how much more careful we need to be.

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Goodbye Blank Screen

David J. Hellerstein, M.D. | Posted 11.28.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Doctors Information, Doctors and Patients, Doctor Privacy, Patient Information, Doctor Information, Doctor Patient Relationship, Patients Information, Patient Privacy, Doctor-Patient Relationship, Patient, Doctor, Health News, Healthy Living News
David J. Hellerstein, M.D.

We older therapists, digital immigrants -- if not digital refugees -- may cling to the delusion we can hide ourselves from the Web. For the younger generation, digital natives all, there will be no way to erase their footprints.

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Little Privacy in Health Care -- Shame on Us

Richard C. Senelick, M.D. | Posted 02.11.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Health Care, Hipaa, Privacy Rule, Hipaa Privacy Rule, Health Care Privacy, Patient Privacy, Privacy and Confidentiality, Privacy and Dignity, Healthy Living News
Richard C. Senelick, M.D.

While it may sound like HIPAA is a small animal at the zoo, it actually stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Privacy is not just about information -- it is also about the physical environment. There are many components to privacy.

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Kansas Abortion Rules Spark Patient Privacy Fears

AP | JOHN HANNA | Posted 09.04.2011 | Politics
Read More: Abortion, Kansas Abortion, Kansas, Kansas Abortion Rules, Abortion Rights, Planned Parenthood Kansas, Planned Parenthood Funding, Patient Privacy, Planned Parenthood Clinics, Kansas Abortion Law, Planned Parenthood, Kansas Planned Parenthood, Politics News

TOPEKA, Kan. — Abortion-rights supporters worried Tuesday that regulations Kansas is trying to enact would give the state health department unfe...

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Patient Privacy Should Be at the Heart of Medical Marijuana Regulations

Steph Sherer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Medical Marijuana, Patient Privacy, Marijuana, Politics News
Steph Sherer

Patient privacy is an important ethical and public health issue of our time. We must not lose sight of upholding those rights when the patients involved use marijuana as their medicine.

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Weekly Pulse: What Would Jesus Insure?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Abortion, The American Prospect, Sue Lowden, Samaritan Ministries International, Health Care Reform Bill, Bankruptcy, Bartering for Health Care, Feminist, Tpmdc, Patient Privacy, Medicaid, Feministing, Lori Ziganto, Harry Reid, HCSM, Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, Mother Jones, Health Care Sharing Ministries, Health Care, Medicare Expansion, Anti-Choice, Medicare, Pro-Choice, Politics News
The Media Consortium

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Christian groups are trying to create a run around health care reform by setting up alternative, unreg...

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