Drew Harwell reports: Like millions of women, Diana Diller was a devoted user of the pregnancy-tracking app Ovia, logging in every night to record new details on a screen asking about her bodily functions, sex drive, medications and mood. When she gave birth last spring, she used the app to chart her baby’s first online…
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San Antonio ISD, University Health System to open middle school clinics
Alia Malik reports: An agreement with the University Health System will open health clinics at two middle schools in the San Antonio Independent School District. Trustees for SAISD unanimously approved the deal Monday night. Both clinics will serve students and district employees in portable buildings on school grounds. Superintendent Pedro Martinez said the goal is…
UK: ICO fines production company £120,000 for unlawful filming in maternity clinic
Do you remember slightly more than six months ago, when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced it had reached separate settlements with Boston Medical Center (BMC), Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) for compromising the privacy of patients’ protected health information (PHI) by…
‘Alexa, what’s my blood sugar?’—Amazon unveils HIPAA-compliant voice services
Conor Hale reports: Amazon has announced that its smartspeaker voice assistant Alexa is now HIPAA-compliant and can serve as your very own healthcare valet. To start, the retail and computing giant has paired up with six companies to develop programs that can harbor protected prescription information, book doctor appointments, track blood glucose levels and find…