HealthITSecurity reports: Patient records from the New York Organ Donor Network are not liable to HIPAA regulations, according to a recent New York Supreme Court ruling. A former network official claimed that four patients had not yet been declared legally dead before their organs were harvested, and had argued that the records in question were…
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2014: DEERFIELD, Ill. & SUNRISE, Fla., December 08, 2014 – Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) (NASDAQ: WAG), the nation’s largest drugstore chain, and MDLIVE, the nation’s leading provider of telehealth services, today introduced a new telehealth offering that will give Walgreens website users 24/7 access to U.S. board-certified doctors through its mobile application. […] 2015: DEERFIELD, Ill….
New Jersey Seeks to Sanction Psychologist for Disclosing Patients’ Diagnoses in Court Filings
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, April 19, 2017, 12 p.m. This story was co-published with The New York Times. The State of New Jersey is moving to revoke or suspend the license of a prominent psychologist, accusing him of failing to prevent details of patients’ mental health diagnoses and treatments from being disclosed when his practice…
OR: Personal info no longer recorded at pot shops; dispensaries to destroy info already on file
Ariana Rakhshani reports: Some worried about the federal implications of marijuana are rejoicing. Governor Kate Brown signed a bill protecting those who shop at pot retailers. Dispensaries have been required to keep customers’ personal information; it allowed the state to audit dispensaries to make sure they were only selling the legal amount to someone within…