John Cousins reports: A Crown prosecutor said there needed to be an “air of reality” around a Bay man’s claim that a St John Ambulance officer breached his privacy by revealing his cannabis use to police. Prosecutor Richard Jenson was responding to an appeal against the decision by a community magistrate not to allow Cory…
Category: Healthcare
Patient Privacy Included in Recent Opioid Records Senate Bill
Elizabeth Snell reports: Recently passed legislation states that HHS will establish guidelines for when healthcare providers should prominently display a patient’s history of opioid use on his or her medical record. The bill also underlines the importance of maintaining patient privacy throughout the patient care process. The Senate passed Jessie’s Law (S. 581) the end…
A Federal Court Says Your Prescription Records Aren’t Really Private. The Supreme Court Might Have Something to Say About That.
Brett Max Kaufman of the ACLU writes: When you fill a prescription at your local drug store, you would surely bristle at someone behind you peeking over your shoulder — but in a decision issued last week, a federal court in Utah said that you have no Fourth Amendment right to object when the peeker…
Amazon has a secret health tech team called 1492 working on medical records, virtual doc visits
Eugene Kim and Christina Farr report: Amazon has started a secret skunkworks lab dedicated to opportunities in health care, including new areas such as electronic medical records and telemedicine. Amazon has dubbed this stealth team 1492, which appears to be a reference to the year Columbus first landed in the Americas. The stealth team, which…