Dan Robitzski reports: …. Now, the government of Ontario — a hotbed of technological research — announced Project Spark, an initiative to make healthcare data more accessible to healthcare professionals, researchers, companies, and the people of Ontario themselves. So there’s reason to be excited, and a bit nervous. Read more on Futurism.
Category: Healthcare
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act in the Healthcare Industry
Bass, Berry & Sims PLC write: As healthcare companies increasingly rely on mobile delivery platforms and other technologies to communicate with patients about appointments, billing and other issues related to their healthcare management, the potential for legal exposure under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) also increases. This series provides information to help healthcare companies…
Kids who cross the border meet with therapists and social workers. What they say can be used against them.
Ella Nilsen reports: Undocumented kids in custody at the border think they’re getting help when they talk with a social worker or clinical psychologist, but what they say is often used to keep them in detention longer or even deport them, lawyers who work with these children say. “They’ll encourage the kids to open up…
This nation faces a DNA dilemma: Whether to notify people carrying cancer genes
Stuart Leavenworth reports: REYKJAVÍK, ICELAND — Sometime in the future, U.S. researchers will be able to press a button and reliably identify the thousands of people who carry cancer-causing genes, including those that trigger breast cancer. In Iceland, that day is already here. With a relatively uniform population and extensive DNA databases, Iceland could easily pinpoint…