Grant Ferowich reports: Google DeepMind and the National Health Service will partner in a move that alerts providers about abnormalities in patients’ vital signs and blood results—and privacy advocates have already started to cry foul. The artificial intelligence branch of Google and the Royal Free NHS agreed to a five-year deal that will allow Google’s…
Category: Healthcare
Consumer Confidential: Medical Privacy Threatened By ‘Big Data’
David Lazarus writes: The future of the U.S. health care system will be influenced to a large extent by a company that makes weapons of war. Defense giant Northrop Grumman has signed a nearly $92 million contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to build the second phase of a computer system that’s…
Ninth Circuit Considers Limits to DEA Access to Oregon Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
Here’s the latest development in a case I’ve been following on this site. Karen Owen Gibbs and Patrick Callaghan of McDermott Will & Emery write: On November 7, 2016, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard arguments in Oregon Prescription Drug Monitoring Program v. United States DEA, Case No. 14-35402 (9th Cir. 2016). The Drug…
Hospitals ditch NIPT pre-natal test after Belgian clinic breaks privacy rules
Here’s a situation to consider: At least two Dutch hospitals have stopped using a pre-natal test for Down’s and other syndromes after it emerged the Belgian firm carrying out the testing is using the women’s private information for commercial purposes. Broadcaster BNR reported that the Gendia laboratory is approaching women who said on their health…