Organizers of the June 13th, D.C. Health Privacy Summit, “Getting IT Right: Protecting Patient Privacy in a Wired World” [http://www.healthprivacysummit.org], today announced the release of all videos from the Summit. Videos include all of the morning panel sessions, the keynote speakers, as well as the final session: “”Looking Forward – The 2012 Health Privacy Agenda” [http://www.healthprivacysummit.org/videos/session-5-looking-ahead-2012-health-privacy-agenda].”…
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Supreme Court strikes down Vermont's prescription data-mining law
Well, a lot of erudite lawyers saw this one coming, but it’s still disappointing that Vermont’s data-mining law has been struck down. Howard Bashman announced the bad news: Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court in Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc., No. 10-779. Justice Breyer issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Ginsburg and Kagan joined. You…
A Nuanced Understanding of Privacy
Brock N. Meeks of CDT writes: A case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court has serious implications for how privacy protections are interpreted. But understanding the various risks posed in this case requires some careful unpacking of the ways in which “privacy” is—and is not—at issue here. CDT’s Health Privacy Project team has taken a look…
Supreme Court Case Could Jeopardize Medical Record Privacy
As is usually the case, EFF and I agree. Their recent press release on Sorrell v. IMS: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to focus on the privacy issues at stake in a battle over the sale and data mining of medical records, urging justices to reverse a ruling that…
EPIC Files Amicus Brief on Risk of "Reidentification," Urges US Supreme Court to Uphold Vermont Privacy Law
From EPIC.org: EPIC has filed an amicus brief in Sorrell v. IMS Health, a case now before the US Supreme Court concerning a state privacy law that seeks to regulate datamining of prescription records for commercial purposes. Datamining companies have challenged the Vermont law, arguing that it violates the First Amendment and also that there…
Prescriptions and privacy
Kimberly Gray writes: Much has been made in the media of late [such as in The Journal’s Feb. 10 editorial “Mining your pill purchases”] of the concern of protecting privacy in the Information Age, but as we focus on developing the appropriate protocols, regulations and innovative privacy and security strategies, it does no one any…