Theo Douglas reports: Missouri’s new statewide Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) should be operational later this summer, the state’s top health official told Government Technology — and will not conflict with the ongoing activation of county PDMPs. Gov. Eric Greitens waded into the statehouse debate that had blocked a statewide PDMP for about 12 years…
Category: Healthcare
Family Tree DNA Challenges Alaska Genetic Privacy Law in Wake of Lawsuit
Turna Ray reports: Genealogy firm Family Tree DNA has challenged the constitutionality of Alaska’s Genetic Privacy Act on the grounds that the statute is so vague in its definitions of terms, such as “DNA analysis,” “disclosure,” and “informed consent,” that the firm cannot know how to comply with the law. The move is part of…
Tool to help police in opioid crisis draws privacy concern
Michael Catalini of Associated Press reports: New Jersey is the latest state amid a national opioid crisis to consider allowing police and law enforcement officials to access its prescription drug monitoring database without a court order, pitting patient rights to privacy against the government’s ability to investigate so-called doctor shopping. Republican state Sen. Robert Singer…
Sweden threatens to axe aid in response to Donald Trump’s abortion ‘gag rule’
Emma Löfgren reports: Sweden will no longer offer aid to organizations yielding to an anti-abortion ‘gag rule’ which demands that health groups funded by the United States do not provide information about abortion. When US president Donald Trump shortly after taking office reinstated what is formally known as the ‘Mexico City Policy’ Sweden was one…