Kristen V. Brown reports: Verily, the Alphabet Inc. life sciences unit that’s previously targeted mosquito-borne illness and launched Covid-19 testing programs, is getting into the health insurance business. On Tuesday, the San Francisco Bay Area company announced a new subsidiary named Coefficient Insurance that will also be backed by Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, the commercial insurance unit of Swiss…
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Search Engines May Expose Patient Health Information, ACR warns
Jessica Davis reports: New search engine capabilities may inadvertently expose patient identifiers and other protected health information, according to a warning from the American College of Radiology (ACR), Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), and Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) to radiologists and other medical professionals. “The ability to use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) at scale allows programs…
AU: HealthEngine ordered to pay $2.9m for ‘misleading conduct’
Matt Woodley reports: The settlement saw HealthEngine admit to providing non-clinical personal information – such as names, dates of birth, phone numbers and email addresses – to nine different third-party private health insurance brokers without properly informing consumers. This arrangement earned the online medical booking platform more than $1.8 million over a period of four…
Ca: London Police snooped on personal health data 10,475 times in 4 months
Colin Butler reports: The London Police Service used a provincial database containing the personal health records of people who tested positive for COVID-19 at one of the highest rates in Ontario, snooping on private medical information 10,475 times between April and July. Law enforcement gained the unprecedented power to access people’s personal medical information when the database…