From PerkinsCoie: As federal and state governments struggle to address future healthcare regulation, demand for healthcare that is cheaper, better and faster continues to surge. Every day, new healthcare apps are being developed to respond creatively to this demand. But pitfalls may await unsuspecting app developers where the lightning-fast technology sector meets the highly-regulated healthcare…
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UK gave Google’s DeepMind access to patient data without legal basis
Kelly Fiveash reports: Google’s DeepMind AI wing was given access to the personal medical records of 1.6 million NHS patients on an “inappropriate legal basis,” the UK’s top data protection adviser to the health service has said. In a letter sent to the Royal Free Hospital’s medical director professor Stephen Powis, and seen by Sky…
Jail time ‘not an appropriate sentence’ for nurse who filmed dementia patient
Rebecca Opie reports: A former nurse at an Adelaide public hospital has been convicted over the illegal filming of a partially-clothed dementia patient who was in her care. Diosa Navarro Rankine, 50, pleaded guilty in the Adelaide Magistrates Court last week to the degrading and humiliating filming of an 85-year-old woman at Flinders Medical Centre…
Calif. Patient Privacy Case Reaches State Supreme Court
HealthIT Security reports: Oral arguments in a patient privacy case were presented to the California Supreme Court earlier this week, claiming that controlled substance prescription data collected and submitted to the state justice department should remain protected. In Lewis v. Superior Court, S219811, California-based Dr. Alwin Carl Lewis maintains that patient privacy was violated following…