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In the battle between families and the courts over medical treatment for kids, who has the last word? Kate Dailey of Newsweek looks at the case of the Minnesota teen and similar cases.

More on the Minnesota case where a judge ordered parents to pursue standard treatment for their 13-year old son after both parents and son indicated that they did not want the chemotherapy: Amy Forliti of the Associated Press reports that a judge has issued an arrest warrant for the mother after the mother and child…

So you hope your security is up to snuff?  Here’s a situation bound to induce headaches…. My firm, Secure Network Technologies, was recently hired by a large healthcare provider to perform a security assessment. As part of the job, my partner, Bob Clary, posed as an employee, similar to the “Seinfeld” episode in which Kramer…

Amy Forliti of the Associated Press has an excellent report on a court ruling that has significant implications for medical privacy and decision-making. In this case, parents of a 13-year old boy diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma — and the boy himself — refused to complete a recommended course of chemotherapy, opting instead for natural healing…

Raquel Maria Dillon of the Associated Press reports that California has fined Kaiser Permanente $250,000 because hospital employees inappropriately accessed medical records for octuplet mother Nadya Suleman when she was a patient at the Bellflower facility. Although the fine is the first one passed under California’s new law boosting medical privacy, it is not the…

From CDT: The California Healthcare Foundation has published a major issue brief by Deven McGraw, director of CDT’s Health Privacy Project, which analyzes the health privacy landscape in California before 2009 and changes made by enactment of recent improvements to both California and federal health privacy laws. As electronic medical records become more widely used…