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…
Category: Healthcare
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…
May Schools Disclose Information about Cases of COVID-19?
From the U.S. Department of Education Student Privacy Policy Office today, this FAQ: May Schools Disclose Information about Cases of COVID-19? By: Kevin Herms, Director of the Student Privacy Policy Office Schools across the nation are working hard to keep students, teachers, and staff safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, many schools are wondering…
AU: Health Department under scrutiny over legality of hotel detention
Clay Lucas reports: The department at the centre of Victoria’s failed hotel quarantine program may have broken the state’s public health laws by not adequately checking daily if thousands of returned travellers needed to remain under detention. Each of the 20,000 travellers who stayed in Victoria’s quarantine hotels between March and when the program was…