This is somewhat stunning about a well-known and promoted app to help trace COVID-19. Newsroom Post reports: Aarogya Setu website says it was designed, developed and hosted by the National Informatics Centre, however, in reply to an RTI query, NIC as well as Ministry of Information Technology have denied any knowledge on who created this…
Category: Healthcare
Which Privacy Protections Apply? HIPAA, FERPA and COVID-19
Elizabeth G. Litten of FoxRothschild writes: A recent conversation with a colleague in California prompted me to write this. He said that as part of its back-to-school plan, his children’s elementary school district “highly encouraged” that all students be tested for COVID-19 before returning to class. The district provided families with an in-home saliva test…
Junior doctor who accessed patient records improperly and failed to engage with regulator is struck off
From an article in BMJ: A junior doctor who improperly accessed the medical records of three hospital patients without a legitimate reason and who then lied about it to a trust investigation has been struck off the UK medical register after failing to engage with the regulatory process. Neha Muralidharan was suspended for 10 months…
NY: Staten Island students tested for coronavirus without parental consent
Erik Bascome reports: Students at multiple Staten Island public schools were recently tested for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) despite a lack of parental consent, which is required for any child under the age of 18, the city Department of Education (DOE) confirmed Friday. On Thursday, Assemblyman Michael Reilly (R-South Shore) penned a letter to NYC Schools Chancellor…