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President's bioethics panel urges new privacy protection to ensure benefits from DNA decoding

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Dissent

Lauran Neergaard of Associated Press reports: It sounds like a scene from a TV show: Someone sends a discarded coffee cup to a laboratory where the unwitting drinker’s DNA is decoded, predicting what diseases lurk in his or her future. A presidential commission found that’s legally possible in about half the states — and says…

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Parental notification before abortion ruled constitutional by Alaska judge

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Dissent

Lisa Demer reports: An Anchorage Superior Court judge has upheld as constitutional a state law requiring parents to be notified before a teen’s abortion. But the issue may not be resolved. Both sides expect it will wind up before the state Supreme Court. Judge John Suddock, in a 65-page decision issued Monday, said the legal…

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Roseville cancer patient says TSA violated privacy

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Dissent

The situation described below is just so distressing that I don’t even know where to begin.   Doug Esser of Associated Press reports: A Michigan woman dying of leukemia said she hopes her embarrassing experience at a Seattle airport changes the way the Transportation Security Administration treats travelers with medical conditions. A TSA spokeswoman said…

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Medical privacy threatened by loophole in draft EU data protection law, professor warns

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Dissent

Loek Essers reports: A “huge loophole” is being carved in the European Union’s upcoming data protection regulation, according Ross Anderson, a professor of security engineering at the University of Cambridge in England. The way the current draft of the law allows secondary uses of medical records is a privacy scandal waiting to happen, Anderson said…

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JP: Internet used to guard medical records from disaster

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Dissent

Storing sensitive records in the cloud may have its own risks, but is that really worse than losing all your patients’ records?  Yasuhiro Kobayashi reports what happened in Japan last year following the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami: According to Miyagi Prefecture’s medical association, 163 facilities, or 90 percent of hospitals and clinics in the…

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Editorial: Hospital should turn over records

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Dissent

A situation in New Hampshire has pitted hospitals’ obligations to protect patient privacy against the state’s legitimate interest in investigating a serious public health and criminal issue.  SeacoastOnline has an editorial on the case: The state Department of Public Health has done a great deal to help Exeter Hospital, its patients and the community at…

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