Hannah Martin reports: Do you remember when the floppy-disk was more than the ‘save’ button in Microsoft Word? Or the goose-bump inducing sound of dial-up internet ringing through your ears? Technology has come a long way since then. In a New Zealand hospital today a surgeon can assist a robotic operation; an anxious child can go through a procedure before it…
Category: Healthcare
Attorney Ordered to Testify Over Medical Info Request in Support Animal Housing Suit
Colby Hamilton reports: Federal prosecutors won their motion to compel the deposition of an attorney in an ongoing Federal Housing Act case Friday, allowing them to ask a court-narrowed set of questions about a landlord’s efforts to keep a chronically ill tenant from acquiring an emotion support dog in his rent controlled Upper East Side…
AMA urges Congress not to loosen restrictions on privacy for patients with addiction history
Lev Facher reports: The American Medical Association is opposing a change to patient privacy laws that would allow doctors to more freely share information about a patient’s history of substance use, a proposal that has divided the health care community and highlighted some of the challenges of addressing the opioid epidemic. In a letter to…
Privacy advocates have failed to engage on My Health Record
Stilgherrian reports: If only three percent of Australians are opting out of My Health Record, it would seem that privacy advocates have made little difference. Despite all the noise, so far the opt-out rate appears to be the same as in the UK and Austria. Privacy advocates have, broadly speaking, failed to get their messages into…