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Ed Friedrich reports from Washington: The Evergreen Freedom Foundation is suing the state Department of Transportation to get the results of drug and alcohol tests that a ferry crew took after their boat hit Seattle’s Colman Dock last summer. The libertarian think tank based in Olympia believes the public should be able to view documents…

Jared Houck dropped me a note to point me to this article he wrote pointing out a potential security risk when using Apple and Opera Mini: …. We’re quite sure that the iPhone and iPad see some use in the health care trenches. So, we’re gonna go out on a limb here to suggest that…

A notice in the Federal Register this week has understandably generated a lot of comment in the health IT community. Here’s the summary from the notice: SUMMARY: In accordance with the Privacy Act, we are proposing to modify or alter an existing SOR, “Program Information Management System (PIMS),” System No. 09-90-0052, published at 67 FR…

Genevieve Bookwalter reports: Realizing it did not have the necessary votes to pass, Assemblyman Bill Monning on Tuesday shelved his bill that would have reined in the sale of doctors’ prescription records for marketing purposes. Monning said he might reintroduce the bill, aimed at big pharmaceutical companies, in January if he can drum up enough…

Katherine Hobson reports: Patients already lie to their doctors. And almost half of respondents in a new survey said if there was any hint their health information — even stripped of identifying details like name or date of birth — would be shared with outside organizations, they might be even less forthcoming. A study on…

Saskatchewan’s health minister is defending the government’s decision to allow the names and addresses of former hospital patients to be used for fundraising. The new rules, which come into effect in May, give hospital foundations access to the information so they can target people to solicit donations. Health Minister Don McMorris says he doesn’t think…