Kim Bellware, Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Timothy Bella, and Ben Brasch of the Washington Post report: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) tried to compel a Seattle hospital to hand over information about gender-affirming treatment Texas youths may have received across state lines, according to court filings, signaling an escalation of his office’s attempts to crack down…
Category: Healthcare
Humana also using AI tool with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit claims
Beth Mole reports: Humana, one the nation’s largest health insurance providers, is allegedly using an artificial intelligence model with a 90 percent error rate to override doctors’ medical judgment and wrongfully deny care to elderly people on the company’s Medicare Advantage plans. According to a lawsuit filed Tuesday, Humana’s use of the AI model constitutes a “fraudulent…
Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocks woman from emergency abortion
Sickening. Disgusting. Infuriating. PogoWasRight can’t even find the right words to express how despicable this situation is. No woman should have to go to court to get permission to get healthcare that she and her doctor believe is necessary. No woman should have to risk being left infertile because some people she doesn’t even know…
German Data Protection Authorities Publish Paper on Cloud-Based Digital Health Applications
Lars Lensdorf, Dr. Dr. Adem Koyuncu, and Anna Oberschelp de Meneses of Covington and Burling write: Digital health apps are increasingly used in practice. They raise various questions under regulatory and data protection and data security laws. On November 6, 2023, the German Conference of the Independent Data Protection Supervisory Authorities (Datenschutzkonferenz, DSK), a national body…