Amanda Marcotte writes: With a recent surge in unprecedented attacks on reproductive rights—federal assaults on women’s right to use private funding for abortion and the House attempting to defund Planned Parenthood—it certainly seems like it’s high season for misogyny. In the woman-hating clamor, one story has risen to the top: a Georgia state legislator (Republican,…
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AU: Project risks medical record privacy, expert warns
Karen Dearne reports: Health bureaucrats risk exposing patient medical information by starting e-health projects before key decisions on security, consent, technical controls and regulatory oversight are made. And Australian Privacy Foundation chair Roger Clarke has attacked the National E-Health Transition Authority and federal Health officials for cutting consumers out of the design process for the…
UK: Forced sterilisation case heard in public
Clare Jaycock writes: On 15 February 2011 Hedley J ordered that a case proceeding in the Court of Protection which featured medical information of the highest sensitivity should be held in open court. The Court of Protection normally hears such cases in private. The case concerned a young woman aged 21 with severe learning difficulties…
Monterey Pot Cooperative Claims City Violated HIPAA
Azenith Smith reports: A Monterey pot shop says the city illegally raided its clients’ private medical files. Now they’re looking to file a lawsuit. “He opens up a HIPPA (sic) labeled file,” says Jhonrico Carrnshimba, a MyCaregiver director. “He sees a number of files in it at this point they should close the file. They…
Doctor faces discipline for shielding patient records in 10-year case
I can’t believe this case is still going on. Alicia Gallegos reports: A physician who refused to release records without patient consent during a medical board investigation finally might receive his formal punishment from the board — 10 years after it was proposed. In a 4-3 vote, the Court of Appeals of Maryland reversed a…
UK: Patients’ privacy threatened in NHS shake-up confidentiality under threat, say doctors
Martin Beckford and Steven Swinford report: The association says new legislation will give the Government, quangos and local authorities the power to access sensitive medical details without the patient’s permission. It fears that the change will lead to patients withholding information from doctors. The doctor’s union raised its concerns in a letter to Simon Burns,…