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…
Category: Healthcare
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…
Doc avoids jail time after criminal violation of HIPAA
There’s a follow-up to a case previously noted on this blog that involved a Georgia cardiologist improperly disclosing pediatric patients’ information to a sales rep for Aegerion Pharmaceuticals Inc. Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that: Dr. Eduardo Montana, 56, was sentenced by U.S. Magistrate Judge M. Page Kelley in Boston to six months of probation and…
Dutch doctor given formal reprimand wins right to be ‘forgotten’ by Google
DutchNews.nl reports: A landmark court ruling from July that was published only last month gives a surgeon who was reprimanded the right to be ‘forgotten’ by Google, Trouw reports. The surgeon in question was initially removed from the BIG register of healthcare professionals because she had been found negligent in the post-operative care of a…