Erica Yen writes: As noted in our post last month, the fact that HIPAA does not provide for a private right of action has not stopped some state courts from allowing negligence claims using HIPAA to define a standard of care. That post discussed the Connecticut Supreme Court’s questionable creation of a new tort of…
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Involuntary Commitment Laws And Privacy Restrictions
William Maruca of Fox Rothschild LLP writes: In a recent New York Times op-ed piece entitled “How a Bad Law and a Big Mistake Drove My Mentally Ill Son Away,” the father of a young man involuntarily hospitalized under Florida’s Baker Act decries “privacy laws” for limiting his access to information about his son’s whereabouts…
Privacy Please: HIPAA and Artificial Intelligence – Part I
Rebecca L. Williams of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP writes: What if Artificial Intelligence (AI) is deployed within a health system to apply machine learning to patient information, in part, to allow patients to download information and wellness numbers (such as steps, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels) and to check on their own well-being without coming…
UK: GP practices told to review 44,000 patient records after data loss glitch
Carolyn Wickware reports: GPs are set to have to review tens of thousands of patient records following a problem where dates and times of entries were removed. Over 2,500 practices have lost patient data including read codes, vaccination information and pathology results due to a problem with importing records of returning patients. The problem, which…