Liz Tay reports: E-health experts have called for information management systems to “harvest” data from electronic health records for medical research. According to Donald Mon of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), “secondary use” of data by researchers could improve medicine, patient safety and public health. While current e-health software was “rich in functionality”,…
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White paper: The Case for Informed Consent
PPR has issued a new white paper. From their press release: Patient Privacy Rights (PPR), the nation’s leading health privacy watchdog released a white paper entitled, “The Case for Informed Consent: Why it is Critical to Honor What Patients Expect: for Health Care, Health IT and Privacy.” The paper is designed to be a primer…
Sensors and In-Home Collection of Health Data: A Privacy by Design Approach
From the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario’s web site: In-home health care monitoring devices are gaining in prominence. Technological improvements in networking, wireless communications, and the miniaturization of electronics have resulted in a suite of emerging technologies that rely on the collection of information from within the home, from an individual’s body, or both….
Article: Waiving Your Privacy Goodbye: Privacy Waivers and the HITECH Act’s Regulated Price for Sale of Health Data to Researchers
Barbara J. Evans of the University of Houston Law Center has uploaded a working paper to SSRN, “Waiving Your Privacy Goodbye: Privacy Waivers and the HITECH Act’s Regulated Price for Sale of Health Data to Researchers.” The abstract is: How much should an insurer or healthcare provider be able to charge when selling people’s personal…
MN: Court Sides With State in Baby Blood Storage Case
Jeff D. Gorman reports: Minnesota did not violate families’ privacy rights by collecting and storing children’s blood samples, the state Court of Appeals ruled. Alan and Keri Bearder and the parents of 23 other children sued the state and its Department of Health for allegedly collecting blood samples from their infants to test for genetic disorders, and…
Patient Loses Appeal of HIV Disclosure Verdict
Jeff D. Gorman reports: A hospital and one of its nurses are not liable for disclosing a woman’s HIV-positive status to family members who visited her, the Missouri Court of Appeals ruled. Candy Ziolkowski sued the Heartland Regional Medical Center for violation of a Missouri law that keeps the HIV status of patients confidential. She claimed…