Long-time readers know I’m on record as being opposed to turning health care professionals into some kind of sheriff’s deputies. Using health care entities to do an end run around Fourth Amendment protections? Nope, not on my watch. Over on his own blog, Joe Cadillic writes: Police state America has found a disturbing new way…
Category: Healthcare
Man used wife’s private medical data to try get marriage annulled
Edwina Brincat reports: An employee of Gozo General Hospital has been found not guilty of having breaching data protection laws when he obtained information on the mental health of his estranged wife and presented this in annulment proceedings before the Ecclesiastical Tribunal. The man, whose identity was not disclosed by the court, had refused to…
“Getting Receipts” – The Millennial Disconnect Between Short-Term Social Media Posts and HIPAA
Ankita Patel writes: Long gone are the days when social media consisted solely of Myspace and Facebook, accessible only by logging in through a desktop computer at home or personal laptop. With every single social media platform readily available on personal cellular devices, HIPAA violations through social media outlets are becoming a frequent problem for…
AU: Female patient filmed at Wesley Hospital in operating theatre
Kay Dibben reports: A surgical assistant at a Brisbane private hospital secretly used his GoPro camera to film inside an operating theatre, as a female patient was about to have bariatric surgery. The filming at the Wesley Hospital was only discovered as the surgery was about to start and the doctor said he had to…