Julia Evangelou Strait, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis writes: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need to quickly understand how best to fight the virus, but it also presents challenges to initiating studies involving actual patients, such as obtaining consent when patients are critically ill or recruiting patients who may be reluctant to…
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University Of South Carolina Accused Of Violating Students’ Medical Privacy
Will Folks reports: The hits just keep coming for the University of South Carolina, which lost its president earlier this month due to allegations of plagiarism and has been mired in further scandal as its politically appointed board of trustees attempts to replace him. The place is an utter shambles … and we haven’t even gotten to football season yet. This week,…
Italian Supervisory Authority Fines Physician for Secondary Use of Patient Data Without Specific Consent
Kristof Van Quathem and Giulia Romana Mele of Covington and Burling write: On May 19, 2021, the Italian Supervisory Authority (“Garante”) fined a physician €5,000 for publishing a patient’s medical records without obtaining that patient’s specific consent to do so. As background, the physician downloaded medical records about a patient she treated at a local hospital from…
UK: If you want to opt out of your medical records being shared….
Seen on Twitter, this post by Phil Booth of MedConfidential: The Government has instructed your GP to hand over your lifelong medical history – your GP doesn’t have a choice, but YOU DO… until 23rd June. If you don’t want your family’s #GPdata used & sold to Hancock’s cronies, send/give this letter to your GP:…