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  • Facebook Changes Raise Privacy Concerns

    If you're on Facebook, you may have heard about the new privacy changes that have members and watchdog organizations crying foul. The new settings allow for greater customization and granularity (you can specify an appropriate audience for each individual post you make), but many of the fields default to public view. And hence the problem-users ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Perspective: HIM (Weblog) on December 21, 2009
  • Abortion Records Go on Long, Strange Trip

    When patient records of women receiving abortions made their way from the Sedgwick County, KS, court to the Johnson County, KS, district attorney's office and then probably on to somewhere in Virginia and then back to Johnson County, KS, that's an issue worth considering, according to a lawyer for Wichita abortion provider George Tiller. Tiller ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Perspective: HIM (Weblog) on February 24, 2009
  • A Twist on Patient Privacy

    Still recovering from Thanksgiving (and 2 nights of reenacting the feast, thanks to Tupperware and a microwave), I spent last Sunday morning lounging on the couch and watching the news. I usually zone out during the sports segment, but a story about Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress caught my attention. No game-saving play, no philanthropic ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Perspective: HIM (Weblog) on December 4, 2008