Joe Cadillic addresses head-on a concern I’ve had: If you thought sending your DNA to for-profit DNA companies was a bad idea, boy do I have bad news for you. The National Institute of Health (NIH) is building a 1 million person DNA database of immigrant children, prisoners and adults, claiming that it will help…
Category: Healthcare
Parkland school shooter’s lawyers ask judge to protect his medical privacy
Rafael Olmeda reports: Someone violated Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer’s order to protect the private medical records of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz, and his lawyers argued in court Wednesday that it wasn’t them. Cruz, who turned 20 on Monday, is facing the death penalty, charged with committing 17 first-degree murders at Marjory Stoneman Douglas…
Privacy measure dropped from opioids package
Mohana Ravindranath, Arthur Allen, and Darius Tahir report: Groups lobbying to make it easier for doctors to share a patient’s substance abuse treatment records may have to take the measure up again next year. They appear to have lost the battle to include it in the final opioids package, which could drop as early as tonight, our…
Paper Trails: Living and Dying With Fragmented Medical Records
I cannot recall in what year I first started seeing my primary care physician, but I do know that even years later, his records on me are missing a lot of my history and past exams and records. Why? Because the system that my records were generated with and stored on with my former primary…