Mark A. Rothstein of the University of Louisville Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy, and Law has an article in The American Journal of Bioethics (Volume 10 Issue 9 2010), “Is Deidentification Sufficient to Protect Health Privacy in Research?” Here’s the abstract: The revolution in health information technology has enabled the compilation and use of large…
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Woman Sues Dallas Hospital Over ID Mixup
Jane Slater reports: A North Texas woman is suing Medical City Dallas for ruining her reputation, credit history and medical record following an alleged records mix-up. The woman asked CBS 11 News to withhold using her name. We will call her “B”. “B” said the trouble began in July 2009. Dallas police escorted a woman,…
Lawsuit filed over AnMed's required flu shot policy
Mike Ellis reports: Bertha Hunter has not had a flu shot in her life and she doesn’t intend to get one just because AnMed Health is requiring all its employees to get one. Hunter, an AnMed Health employee, is suing the Anderson healthcare company on grounds that the hospital’s mandatory shots are a violation of…
UK: Mum’s baby DNA shock
A shocked mum said she should have been told her baby’s DNA will be kept on a database for life. Ana Humberstone, 36, claims she was unaware the DNA of her two-year-old daughter Jasmine would be stored with thousands of other babies from Wakefield on NHS records in Leeds. […] Parents and civil liberties groups…
Patient Consent: Much To Be Done
Howard Anderson writes: Detailed patient consent recommendations that a privacy and security “tiger team” recently completed are just a starting point toward giving patients far more control over their healthcare information, the co-chair of the team acknowledges. In an interview (complete transcript below), attorney Deven McGraw says the recommendations, which federal regulators are now considering for…
No one's blaming the software: a response to EMR and HIPAA
Over on EMR and HIPAA John writes: I was recently sent an Information Week article on “Steady Bleed: State of HealthCare Data Breaches.” The article basically tries to list out all of the data breaches that are happening in healthcare and how healthcare companies aren’t doing what they need to do to protect patient data….