Kathryn Carey and Lynn Sessions of BakerHostetler write: On Jan. 3, 2018, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) issued its final rule regarding the Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records Part 2. These changes become effective Feb. 2, 2018. As background, the Confidentiality of Substance Use Discover Patient Records Part 2…
Category: Healthcare
NHS must ‘immediately stop sharing patient data’ with Home Office, say MPs
This is the nightmare – that patients will stop sharing their serious and sensitive health or personal information with providers because the information is not being kept confidential. NHS should be focused on treating patients – not on being tin-star deputies for the Home Office on immigration issues. Alexander J. Martin reports: The NHS…
Google is using 46 billion data points to predict the medical outcomes of hospital patients
David Gershgorn reports: Some of Google’s top AI researchers are trying to predict your medical outcome as soon as you’re admitted to the hospital. A new research paper, published Jan. 24 with 34 co-authors and not peer-reviewed, claims better accuracy than existing software at predicting outcomes like whether a patient will die in the hospital,…
California fines hospitals for breaches of medical privacy
Most regular readers of this site or DataBreaches.net probably know that while we see the larger HIPAA breaches on HHS’s web site, we don’t see a listing of those breaches that affect less than 500 patients. But those breaches are still reported to HHS. And they may also have to be reported to states. Periodically, the…