John Agar reports: The attorney for medical-marijuana advocates said state Attorney General Bill Schuette, a critic of the state’s medical-marijuana law, should fight a federal request for patients’ confidential records. The federal government filed a court request to enforce its subpoena for information. In a court filing this week, Schuette said the state Department of…
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NL: Patients to get more control of their medical records
DutchNews.nl reports: Patients are to get the right to decide who should have access to their confidential medical details when they are stored in a central data bank, health minister Edith Schippers is set to announce on Thursday. The minister also wants patients to be automatically sent an email or mobile phone text message if…
UK: Not breach of rights to force doctor to disclose patient records
Matt Donmall reports: A Swedish professor has failed in his European Court of Human Rights challenge to his conviction for disobeying a court order to hand over sensitive information in medical research, despite having promised the participants that the information would be for his use alone. As reported in a past blog, the fact of their…
UK: NHS records viewed in India – SBS answers my questions
Tony Collins writes: NHS Shared Business Services – a joint venture between the Department of Health and Steria – does not have to publish any detail on what NHS information is viewed in India or what data fields can be viewed. Steria employs 5,000 in India some of whom work on NHS records. It says…
GA: Lawmakers may monitor use of medications
Charles Oliver reports: The General Assembly may be taking a look in your medicine chest. Rep. Tom Weldon, R-Ringgold, said Thursday he will introduce legislation this year to battle “pill mills.” “We don’t have a searchable database that sheriffs and law enforcement can go in and see who has been buying meth products and who…
Article: Relative Futility: Limits to Genetic Privacy Protection Because of the Inability to Prevent Disclosure of Genetic Information by Relatives
Relative Futility: Limits to Genetic Privacy Protection Because of the Inability to Prevent Disclosure of Genetic Information by Relatives Trevor Woodage Minnesota Law Review, December 2010, Volume 95, No. 2 Abstract: The Note considers possible limits to reasonable expectations of genetic privacy given that people share their DNA sequences with their relatives. Most scholars and…