Elise Reuter reports: After striking a controversial collaboration with Google to build a tool to search health records, Ascension is making it available to more clinicians in an expanded pilot. Called Care Studio, the tool is designed to pull a patient’s health records into a central location, where physicians can search for certain terms, and…
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Israel adopts law allowing names of unvaccinated to be shared
AFP reports: Israel’s parliament passed a law Wednesday allowing the government to share the identities of people not vaccinated against the coronavirus with other authorities, raising privacy concerns for those opting out of inoculation. The measure, which passed with 30 votes for and 13 against, gives local governments, the director general of the education ministry…
Facebook Starts Blocking Sensitive Medical Data Shared by Apps Over Privacy Concerns
AFP reports: Facebook has started blocking sensitive health information that third-party apps had been sharing with the social network in violation of its own rules, said New York officials who investigated the situation. Data fed into a Facebook analytics tool by app makers included medical diagnoses and whether users were pregnant, according to a report shared by New York…
HR: Disseminating Data on Vaccinated People against Medical Privacy Rule
HINA reports on the situation in Croatia: Epidemiologist Bernard Kaić, an official of the Public Health Institution (HZJZ), said on Monday that the list of people who have been vaccinated against COVID was subject to medical confidentiality. “With regard to the list of vaccinated people that is being mentioned – those are medical records and…