Police are arresting people purely for the purpose of ensuring that their DNA is sampled and recorded on the police's national database, a report by Government advisory body the Human Genetics Commission (HGC) has said. The...

Our goal, above all else, is to make care better for patients, and to make it patient-centered. Information policy and health IT policy should serve that goal. via healthcareitnews.com From: "Blumenthal: Tear down walls that block information...

Yes, a Canadian insurance company decided to keep tabs on a woman it was paying sick leave benefits to, and lo and behold, that woman was having — wait for it — fun! Nathalie Blanchard, a 29-year-old IBM employee from Quebec, took a long-term...

What if your long-term health profile were a corporate asset of your health plan? What if, when you changed health plans, the new health plan had to pay the old health plan for the rights to insure you? Call this a health plan member's Net Asset...

via healthcarereportcard.illinois.gov Take a look - data like whoa. Also note user friendly, non 1998 Windows fabulous user interface. We're getting there, slowly but surely... Posted via web from Jen's Posterous