A new system for monitoring the safety of marketed drugs and other medical products is being developed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), according to medical scientists writing in the New England Journal of Medicine this week. But a host of challenges will need to be overcome before it can be used successfully,…
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Imperial breaches the DPA
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest NHS organisation to be required to sign an undertaking not to breach the Data Protection Act by the Information Commissioner’s Office. The undertaking says six laptops were stolen in two burglaries at St Mary’s Hospital, one of which was unencrypted even though it held patient…
Imperial breaches the DPA
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest NHS organisation to be required to sign an undertaking not to breach the Data Protection Act by the Information Commissioner’s Office. The undertaking says six laptops were stolen in two burglaries at St Mary’s Hospital, one of which was unencrypted even though it held patient details….
Carrell Clinic guard indicted
A federal grand jury in Dallas has returned an indictment charging an Arlington, Texas, man, who worked as a contract security guard at the Carrell Clinic on North Central Expressway in Dallas, with felony offenses related to his compromising and damaging the hospital’s computer system, announced Acting U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern…
Psychiatrists Must Beware the Perils of Cyberspace
An article by Jun Yan in the July 17 issue of Psychiatric News: If a patient has scattered personal information in cyberspace for all to see, can it be interpreted as his or her choice to relinquish confidentiality on this information? What if a patient denies suicidal ideation but posts suicidal messages on an online…
Those medical tests are yours
Los Angeles resident Rose Cohen says all she wanted was a copy of her laboratory test results. She’d been given a routine blood panel during an annual visit to her gynecologist and wanted to show the report to her internist. The results had already been returned to her gynecologist from the lab, meaning they were…