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…
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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:…
Millions of Brits ‘unwittingly tracked’ by phone after Covid jab to see if movements changed
Alex Winter reports: Millions of Brits have been unwittingly tracked by their mobile phones after getting the Covid jab, it’s reported. Health chiefs wanted the data to see if vaccinated people are moving about more after they have their inoculations. And Government scientists admitted in an official report that one in ten jabbed Brits were tracked…
Google Strikes Deal With Hospital Chain to Develop Healthcare Algorithms
Melanie Evans reports: Alphabet Inc.’s Google and national hospital chain HCA Healthcare Inc. have struck a deal to develop healthcare algorithms using patient records, the latest foray by a tech giant into the $3 trillion healthcare sector. Nashville, Tenn.,-based HCA, which operates across about 2,000 locations in 21 states, would consolidate and store with Google data from digital health records…