You Snooze, You Lose: Insurers Make The Old Adage Literally True by Marshall Allen Last March, Tony Schmidt discovered something unsettling about the machine that helps him breathe at night. Without his knowledge, it was spying on him. From his bedside, the device was tracking when he was using it and sending the information not…
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Sacramento mother angry medical records were accessed by unauthorized employee
Brandi Cummings reports: A grieving Sacramento mom is outraged over the revelation that a UC Davis Hospital employee accessed her daughter’s medical records without a work purpose. This incident involves Azalya Anderson, 3. She is the toddler who died after a drive-by shooting at her home on Della Circle back in September. A letter from…
The quest for identified data: Why some firms are bypassing hospitals to buy data directly from patients
Eli Richman reports: Would you sell your own healthcare data to a private company? What if it could help them discover a new treatment? What if you were poor and desperate for income? Those are the questions patients are faced with in the new world of protected health information (PHI) marketplaces. Data brokers have long…
Portuguese Hospital Receives and Contests €400,000 Fine for GDPR Infringement
Anna Oberschelp de Meneses and Kristof Van Quathem of Covington & Burling write: On July 17, 2018, the Portuguese Supervisory Authority (“CNPD”) imposed a fine of 400.000 € on a hospital for infringement of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The decision has not been made public. Earlier this week, the hospital publicly…