Jessa Schroeder reports: A Connecticut man accused in his wife’s murder might have gotten away with it — if not for the victim’s Fitbit fitness tracker and other electronic devices, authorities allege. Richard Dabate, 40, was charged this month with felony murder, tampering with physical evidence and making false statements following his wife Connie’s December…
Category: Healthcare
Judge Says HIPAA Regulations Do Not Apply in Organ Donor Case
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…
Evolution
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…