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Social Justice

Your Medical Records Are in Danger

Lessons from a year reporting on loopholes and lax enforcement of the federal patient-privacy law known as HIPAA.

Charles Ornstein

Social Justice

Letter From the Editor: What You Could Buy With $60 Billion of Missing Medicare Funds

Introducing the January/February 2016 print issue of Pacific Standard.

Nicholas Jackson

Social Justice

Celebrities’ Medical Records Tempt Hospital Workers to Snoop

Snooping on celebrities has been a bane for health systems around the country for years.

Charles Ornstein

Economics

The Destruction of Workers’ Compensation

Over the past 25 years, the giant meatpacking company Tyson Foods has taken a lead in pushing for changes in workers’ comp in state after state—often to the detriment of workers.

Michael Grabell

Social Justice

Forget the Anthem Breach, Small-Scale Violations of Medical Privacy Often Cause the Most Harm

Breaches that expose the health details of just a patient or two are proliferating nationwide. Regulators focus on larger privacy violations and rarely take action on small ones, despite the harm.

Charles Ornstein

Social Justice

Privacy Not Included: Federal Law Lags Way Behind New Health-Care Technology

The federal privacy law known as HIPAA doesn’t cover home paternity tests, fitness trackers, or health apps. When a Florida woman complained after seeing the paternity test results of thousands of people online, federal regulators told her they didn’t have jurisdiction.

Charles Ornstein

Social Justice

The Perfect Swarm

How the epic quest to find protein revealed a surprising link between climate change and obesity.

Peter Andrey Smith

Economics

More Trouble in Coal Country

Peabody Energy, the nation’s largest coal company, is seeking release from a pledge to pay into a health insurance fund.

Alec MacGillis

Education

The Future of Work: In a World Full of Information, Many Gaps

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

D.A. Wallach