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And yet another really bad idea…. tin star badges for doctors. It’s an intrusion on doctor-patient confidentiality and as I’ve written in the past, I’m firmly opposed to it. That a physicians’ group is the one proposing it is particularly unsettling. Allison Jones reports: Ontario’s doctors should be legally required to tell police when they…

From the worst-idea-of-the-week dept. Lynn Bonner reports: Sheriffs in North Carolina want access to state computer records identifying anyone with prescriptions for powerful painkillers and other controlled substances. The state sheriff’s association pushed the idea Tuesday, saying the move would help them make drug arrests and curb a growing problem of prescription drug abuse. But…

Deven McGraw of CDT was interviewed by HealthcareInfoSecurity.com: 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, attorney Deven McGraw says the recommendations, which federal regulators are…

Neil Versel writes: Depending on your point of view, Dr. Deborah Peel and her Patient Privacy Rights Foundation either continue to rail against the national push for EHRs or take further steps to hold policymakers honest. (We’re not going to go as far as ZDNet Healthcare’s Dana Blankenhorn, who recently called Peel a “Luddite” whose…

I decided to give Twitter a try, so look for @PogoWasRight on Twitter where I’ll be tweeting about some of the privacy and breach news covered on PogoWasRight.org, PHIprivacy.net, and DataBreaches.net, as well as miscellaneous civil liberties issues of concern to me. If you’re not on my “following” list yet, please don’t take offense. I’m…

I decided to give Twitter a try, so look for @PogoWasRight on Twitter where I’ll be tweeting about some of the privacy and breach news covered on PogoWasRight.org, PHIprivacy.net, and DataBreaches.net, as well as miscellaneous civil liberties issues of concern to me. If you’re not on my “following” list yet, please don’t take offense. I’m…