Alan Travis reports: The confidential patient records of more than 8,000 people have been handed over by the NHS to the Home Office in the past year as part of its drive to track down immigration offenders. A memorandum of understanding, published for the first time on Tuesday, makes clear that NHS digital is required by law…
Category: Healthcare
Abortion Case Pits Privacy Against State Power at High Court
Katheryn Hayes Tucker reports: The constitutional right to privacy took on the power of the state to claim immunity from legal challenge before the Georgia Supreme Court Monday. The case in question targets a 2012 state law banning nearly all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, known as the fetal pain statute because it is tied…
ZA: Health authorities want to illegally access private information
Wilmot James, the Democratic Alliance (DA) Shadow Minister of Health, writes: The DA have a letter from the Health Minister, Aaron Motsoaledi, to the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) in July last year in which he requested the CMS to collect private data about medical scheme members in order maintain a ‘Beneficiary Registry’ of members. His…
Four States Join InterConnect, a Prescription Data Sharing Network
From the press release: More than 55 million people from the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Texas are now covered by the prescription monitoring program (PMP) data sharing system administered by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) and technology partner Appriss Health. The addition of these states to the NABP PMP InterConnect® network brings the total collaboration to 37 states…