Shoshanna Solomon reports: The Israeli government on Sunday approved a National Digital Health plan, which, despite mounting privacy concerns, plans to create a digital database of the medical files of some 9 million residents and make them available to researchers and enterprises. The government has vowed to protect the privacy of individuals and is touting the NIS…
Category: Healthcare
Pseudoanonymous is not “anonymous,” Dwight.
It seems that are still too many people who are ignorant about the difference between “pseudoanonymous” and “anonymous.” Dwight appears to be one of them. Dwight handles public relations/media communications for The MENTOR Network. I had recently read two press releases about data breaches that were both linked to The MENTOR Network. The press releases…
Implants Send Real-Time Health Data to Patients’ Cellphones
Sean Duffy reports: A new family of small, implantable sensors that could help triage wounded soldiers, indicate effective exercises for an individual athlete, and provide an early warning of a developing health issue moves personalized medicine one step closer to becoming a reality, according to a new study. The report, which will be presented Monday…
Not So Fast! HIPAA (Surprisingly) Doesn’t Apply to THAT!
Jessica Forbes Olson of Fox Rothschild writes: Many employers who have had it drilled into them that HIPAA applies to protected health information (PHI) of employees are often surprised to learn that the applicability of HIPAA to employee health information (EHI) is actually quite narrow. HIPAA only applies to EHI related to the employer’s group…