Melanie Evans and Laura Stevens report: Amazon.com Inc. is starting to sell software that mines patient medical records for information doctors and hospitals could use to improve treatment and cut costs. The move is the latest by a big technology company into health care, an industry where it sees opportunities for growth. Read more on WSJ.
Category: Healthcare
NYU to release large-scale MRI dataset for AI project with Facebook
Danielle Brown reports: NYU Langone Health’s Department of Radiology is planning to release a large-scale dataset that includes more than 1.5 million MRI knee images in an ongoing effort to make MRI scans faster with AI. The medical center announced its dataset release plans on Nov. 25 during the annual RSNA meeting in Chicago. The release is…
Health care providers exempt from new California state privacy law
From the California Dental Association: Amid frequent news from companies reporting breaches of individuals’ personal information, the state Legislature approved and Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation (AB 375 and SB 1121) to create the California Consumer Privacy Act. CCPA aims to give California consumers greater control over their personal information by imposing certain obligations on…
Dutch Supervisory Authority Imposes GDPR Security Standard for Processing Broadly Defined Health Data
Kristof van Quathem of Covington & Burling writes: In early November, the Dutch Supervisory Authority released an injunction imposed against the public insurance body Uitvoeringsinstituut Werkgeversverzekering (“UWV”) last July. The UWV allows employers to submit data about their employees for social security purposes. The data includes dates of employee absences due to general illness (and…