Joe Cadillic sent along an article that’s a good reminder to parents to make sure that they understand their state’s laws and the policies of any doctors or hospitals they may take their children to — or that their children may contact. KCRG reports: A Coralville father recently found out he will no longer have…
Category: Healthcare
AU: Insurers gaining ‘open-ended access’ to medical records slammed as ‘unfair privacy breach’
Amy Bainbridge and Emily Clark report: Julie Gilbert has no idea what her insurance company knows about her medical history. When she applied for income protection and life insurance, Ms Gilbert declared she had received counselling for sexual abuse she said she suffered as a child. For the application to proceed, she had to grant…
On Oregon’s dumb idea
HIPAA lawyer Jeff Drummond is critical of a proposed law in Oregon. Here’s why: Oregon wants to pass a law to prohibit the sale of de-identified data without the data subject’s consent. That is dumb — de-identified data does not have a data subject. And if it’s truly de-identified, there is no downside to its being…
Confidentiality for Patients With Substance Use Disorders Is Under Threat
Alison Knopf writes: When patients seek treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs)—in a society that stigmatizes and discriminates against people with SUDs in so many ways—they naturally want to know if their treatment will be “confidential.” This means: private, not shared with anyone unless they give permission to share it. There’s a federal regulation meant…