Tim Carpenter reports: U.S. Senate candidate Milton Wolf posted a collection of gruesome X-ray images of gunshot fatalities and medical injuries to his Facebook page and participated in online commentary layered with macabre jokes and descriptions of carnage. Wolf, a Johnson County radiologist anchoring a campaign for the Republican nomination with calls for federal heath…
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NZ: Nurse privacy invasion charge dismissed
Jeremy Olds reports: A nurse who followed the request of a mentally-unstable early childhood teacher and accessed her medical record has been exonerated after the woman complained about an invasion of privacy. The nurse, who has name suppression, was found by the Human Rights Review Tribunal not to have breached the Health Information Privacy Code…
Hospital records sold to insurance companies – in breach of the Data Protection Act?
After yesterday’s blockbuster revelation by the Telegraph, Jon Baines writes: I’ve asked the ICO to assess whether the sale of millions of health records to insurance companies so that they could “refine” their premiums was complaint with the law Read more on Information Rights and Wrongs.
UK: Hospital records of all NHS patients sold to insurers
If this is true, then heads need to roll. And the sooner, the better. Laura Donnelly reports: The medical records of every NHS hospital patient in the country have been sold for insurance purposes, The Telegraph can reveal. The disclosure comes days after controversial plans to extract patient data from GP files were put on…
'Hacking' may reveal personal health risks
Well, at least the editor put ‘hacking’ in quotes as this really has nothing to do with hacking and more to do with developing algorithms that may enable re-identification or identification of individuals from genetic databases when the information is combined with other publicly available databases or information. Sarah Knapton reports on the implications of…
What You Need to Know About Patient Matching and Your Privacy and What You Can Do About It
Adrian Gropper, MD is Chief Technical Officer of Patient Privacy Rights. He writes: Today, ONC released a report on patient matching practices and to the casual reader it will look like a byzantine subject. It’s not. You should care about patient matching, and you will. It impacts your ability to coordinate care, purchase life and disability insurance, and…