Stephanie Barry reports: A former gynecologist whose attorney says devoted her life to serving poor women and girls will be sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court for violating patient privacy laws and lying to federal agents investigating an alleged Big Pharma kickback scheme. Rita Luthra, 65, of Longmeadow, was convicted in April of two criminal…
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This Lawyer Released His Client’s Psychiatric Records Out of Spite. Now He’s Lost His License
Robert Storace writes: Angry that a former client sued him, 86-year-old New Britain-based attorney Jason Pearl released the woman’s psychiatric medical records online to “embarrass” her, according to a court ruling. Now, that action led a Superior Court judge to suspend Pearl from practicing law for two years, pausing—and possibly halting—a decadeslong career. Read more on…
MN: Fairview Southdale cited for secretly videotaping patients
Jeremy Olson reports: A federal Medicare investigation has found that Fairview Southdale Hospital violated the privacy rights of certain patients by taping them without their knowledge during psychiatric evaluations in the emergency department. The investigation centered on a woman who was taken to the emergency room of the Edina hospital against her will in May…
Soon your doctor will be able to wirelessly track your health—even through walls
Rachel Metz reports: Imagine a box, similar to a Wi-Fi router, that sits in your home and tracks all kinds of physiological signals as you move from room to room: breathing, heart rate, sleep, gait, and more. Dina Katabi, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, built this box in her lab….