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Mt: New ID cards to store health records

Posted on May 27, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

Each new identity card to be introduced next year would contain an electronic chip containing the individual’s health record, Communications Minister Austin Gatt told Parliament yesterday. Moving the second reading of the Central Registry Bill, he said the information would be linked to Mater Dei Hospital, health clinics and, in time, to general practitioners’ clinics….

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A Victory for Privacy: California Senate Rejects Bill to Allow Drug Marketing Firms Access to Patient Medical Records Without Consent

Posted on May 25, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

  Zack Kaldveer of the Consumer Federation of California writes: The California Senate rejected a bill this week by a vote of 17 to 17 (21 needed to “pass”) that would have allowed the sharing of a patient’s confidential medical information regarding prescription drugs among a pharmacy, third party corporations and pharmaceutical companies. The bill…

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Public's right to know versus president's health privacy

Posted on May 25, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

Lauran Neergaard reports: Woodrow Wilson’s secret stroke. Grover Cleveland’s secret cancer surgery. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s secretly worsening heart disease at the world-changing Yalta Conference. Notice a lot of secrets? While the public knows far more today about the health of its presidents and presidential candidates than ever before, do we know enough? And does knowing…

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UK: Personal files abandoned at derelict nursery

Posted on May 24, 2008 by Dissent

Rhys Thomas of the Hucknall Dispatch reports: Personal files of more than 100 parents and children were left behind in an apparently shocking disregard for privacy when a Hucknall nursery moved premises. The discovery was made at the derelict former site of the Rocking Horse Day Nursery, on Watnall Road, after a tip-off to the…

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HOSP ID-THEFT DUO NAILED

Posted on May 24, 2008 by Dissent

Erika Martinez reports in the NY Post: Two information specialists at a Brooklyn hospital stand accused of swiping patient information to open bogus credit-card accounts and shop online while working. Jessica Paul, 23, and Jessica Darden, 20, of Maimonides Medical Center in Borough Park, accessed patient files and ran the names through a credit-check Web…

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HIPAA Revisited, Part 1: Privacy vs. Portability

Posted on May 24, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

Andrew Burger writes: Is HIPAA proving effective in protecting the privacy of individuals’ personally identifiable health information? And are the resulting accounting and reporting systems proving manageable for the diversity of healthcare practitioners and administrators? Is it getting in the way of medical treatment and research or facilitating it? CRM Buyer spoke with a range…

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