Understanding the duties, guidelines and roles & responsibilities of CCHIT.

For last several months, I have been debating about how to protect data privacy of medical records while making them as accessible as possible. Most of the people have their bank records.  With a password, they seem to be fairly safe.  There are...

In the last several months, there has been debate for the need to healthcare reform and also many making the claim that there is nothing wrong with our healthcare system – note US does not have healthcare system as noted by Sen. Bill Frist. Now the...

For some of our readers, we wanted to provide a brief revisit to HIPPA rules.  The information below is based on sources including wiki. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1996....

ABC news reported on January 25 that there has been several cases where patients have been exposed to higher than required level of radiation and in some cases causing death. THT did an article here few months back pointing out the issues and also...