SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra issued the following statement on Friday in response to the government’s decision to appeal California’s nationwide injunction that protects women’s access to birth control. The appeal seeks to revive the Trump Administration’s illegal regulations giving corporations and employers the power to deny hundreds of thousands of women access to…
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Letter: State AG Becerra vows to protect patient drug data
California’s Attorney General has sent a letter to the Mercury News: The California Department of Justice must safeguard the rights and interests of nearly 40 million Californians. That’s why when it comes to requiring doctors to utilize a database containing sensitive, personal prescription drug information, we won’t sign off until we know it works and…
HHS asked to rule on whether Portland, Maine violated patient privacy laws
Randy Billings reports: A former patient at a city-run health clinic has formally asked federal regulators to determine whether Portland officials violated privacy laws by sharing the names and contact information of more than 200 HIV-positive patients with university researchers without patient consent. Jenson Steel, a former patient at the city’s HIV Positive Health Clinic…
Connecticut case finds health care privacy cause of action
There’s a nice review of a recent and important case in Connecticut. Susan Ross and Kim Gold of Norton Rose Fulbright explain: On January 16, 2018, the Connecticut Supreme Court unilaterally created a new state law cause of action for violation of a patient’s health care privacy. (Byrne v. Avery Center for Obstetrics & Gynecology,…