Author: Dissent

The Library of Parliament recently published a legislative summary of Bill C-29: An Act to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act(PIPEDA). […] “Bill C-29 adds several new definitions to PIPEDA. It preserves the existing definition of personal information as ‘information about an identifiable individual,’ but removes the wording excluding the names and coordinates…

Arie Friedman, MD writes: As I have read through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA, aka ObamaCare), I have been repeatedly struck by the disregard the law has for patient privacy. Time and time again, the PPACA authorizes the federal government to obtain information about patients directly from their health care…

Leslie Williams Hale reports: At the intersection of health privacy laws and student privacy laws in Florida stand the students themselves. Before a student in Florida can sign up for classes, he or she must provide a medical history to the state university. That medical history is often a simple list of required vaccinations. However…

Karen Kissane reports: …. the federal government will introduce shared electronic health records. If the roll-out goes to plan, by July 1, 2012, any patient will be able to ask their doctor to create one. They will be uploaded on the web to be accessed – with patient permission – by any of the nation’s…