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…
Category: Healthcare
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…
Could the Missouri Prescription Drug Monitoring Program’s Use of Private-Sector Data Be a National Prototype?
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…
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…