Paul Melson's Blog

I finally have a serious prediction for 2008: I predict that unauthorized access of medical records will be the new lost laptop story . Rep...

A colleague of mine sent me this article , which should be of interest to pretty much everyone in the health care or human resources fields....

Palisades hospital in New Jersey has suspended 27 employees for accessing actor George Clooney's medical record after he was treated th...

HIPAA isn't new, but - and maybe because I work in an environment where it's the primary regulatory standard - I regularly have con...

Lots and lots of people have declared HIPAA irrelevant and ineffective because of the lack of direct federal oversight and the percepti...