Alan Travis reports: Doctors and other health professionals will be asked to identify people who are “vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism” as part of the government’s redrawn counter-terrorism programme to be detailed on Tuesday. […] One “key message” of the document is that it is not a programme to spy on Muslim communities, but…
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A call to do more on privacy
Joseph Conn writes: The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology recently took a white-paper whipping from the HHS inspector general’s office. I had a chance during a telephone interview last week to hear from a rebuttal witness, privacy lawyer Joy Pritts, chief privacy officer at the ONC. Pritts said the government is…
MI: Big changes for medical marijuana users
According to a Michigan federal court judge on Friday, medical marijuana patients have no right to privacy. Federal Judge Hugh Brenneman Jr. ruled that Michigan medical marijuana patients have no right to privacy when it comes to a federal investigation involving marijuana. In short, medical marijuana patients should not expect the information they give to…
Dys-maintenance note
We had to do a database restore. In the process, posts between May 28 and this afternoon were lost and RSS links or links from Twitter may no longer work. I’ll try to restore/recreate some of the missing posts, but some may be permanently lost.
Register NOW for the First International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy
From their announcement: *JOIN THE CONVERSATION TO SHAPE THE FUTURE OF PRIVACY* *International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy* *June 13, 2011 at the Georgetown Law Center* “”Getting IT Right: Protecting Patient Privacy in a Wired World”” [http://www.healthprivacysummit.org ] is the first open, public forum to examine and debate the future of health privacy…
Preliminary Thoughts about the HIPAA Accounting of Disclosures NPRM
Rebecca Herold comments on the HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM). […] Logging access to ePHI has been around since the Security Rule went into effect. So, even though the original accounting for disclosures requirements did not include activities…