Privacy gets sacrificed when public health is at serious risk. Chen Huizhi reports on fever screenings at Metro stations in Shanghai: Temperature screenings for Metro passengers have been introduced at all stations in Shanghai as of Wednesday, says the city’s Metro operator. There are 751 temperature screening points at Metro stations, with 231 using thermal…
Category: Healthcare
Your Poorly Secured Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care
I didn’t even know I had/have a medical credit score. Do I? Do you? Joe Cadillic sends along this eye-opener of a report by Keith Axline: Private hospitals are now consulting a secret medical credit score from Experian before you even see a doctor. As a patient you do not have access to this score,…
Ca: Class action over forensic hospital strip searches reaches proposed settlement
CBC News reports: The class-action suit launched after a hospital-wide strip search of patients at the East Coast Forensic Hospital in Dartmouth, N.S., in 2012 has reached a proposed settlement. The 33 forensic psychiatry patients who were strip-searched on Oct. 16, 2012, will be entitled to $5,000 each, according to law firm behind the lawsuit. It was filed in 2013…
New York comptroller may audit medical providers without written patient permission, state appeals court rules
Karen Kidd reports: Written permission is not required for New York’s Comptroller’s office to subpoena a medical provider’s records to audit state-issued payments, the state appeals court has ruled. In its 14-page opinion issued Dec. 17, the seven-judge New York Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the Comptroller’s office’s subpoenas need not be accompanied by written patient…