Bernise Carolino reports: A discipline committee has made a finding of professional misconduct in relation to a doctor whose cosmetic surgery clinic implemented a surveillance system that reached private areas where patients would undress. In Ontario (College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario) v. Jugenburg, 2020 ONCPSD 40, a Toronto-based physician who owned and practised at…
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NZ: Medical student’s career up in the air after letting her flatmate secretly watch a surgery
Andre Chumko reports: A medical student has been barred from multiple district health boards after she let her flatmate watch a cardiac surgery at Wellington Regional Hospital. On Saturday, Capital & Coast DHB said it had concluded its investigation into an incident in August this year, where a member of the public inappropriately accessed the hospital…
Physician-Patient Privilege Protects Nonparty Medical Records
MaryAnn Pazanowski reports: A Maine hospital won a discovery dispute against a medical malpractice plaintiff seeking nonparty medical records because the state’s physician-patient privilege protects such information, even when patient-identifying data has been removed, Maine’s top court said. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court Tuesday adopted an expansive view of the privilege in a decision answering a question…
71% Of Healthcare Medical Apps Have A Serious Vulnerability; 91% Fail Crypto Tests
Sudipto Ghosh writes: There has been a colossal rise of medical apps in the last 12 months or so. Today, mobile users rely on medical apps on their iOS and Androids devices to track and manage their health, fitness and medical history. The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a huge impetus to the global mobile healthcare…