Daniel Burdon reports: A Canberra anaesthetist has been banned from practising medical research for a year and had a finding of professional misconduct made against him in the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal. […] The Medical Board of Australia took Dr Melhuish to the tribunal after a long-running dispute between Dr Melhuish and ACT Health over…
Category: Healthcare
Ontario court awards damages for family member’s disclosure of mental health information
David T.S. Fraser writes: The Ontario Small Claims Court, in Halley v McCann, 2016 CanLII 58945 (ON SCSM), has recently awarded a plaintiff $9,000 in damages for breach of privacy. The case arose because the defendant disclosed the fact that the plaintiff had admitted herself to a mental health facility. The defendant is also the half-sister…
FR: New rules for processing patient health data
DLA Piper writes: France’s Law for the Modernization of the Health System, adopted earlier this year, applies to all processing of health data for the purpose of evaluating or analyzing medical treatments and preventive actions. The Law amends the Data Protection Law of 1978, creating a new framework for obtaining authorization to process health data,…
DEA wants to block ACLU of Utah from prescription drug database suit
Lindsay Whitehurst reports: The Drug Enforcement Administration wants to block the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah from stepping into a court case over whether investigators can do warrantless searches of a database of all prescription drug records in the state. More than 40 states keep similar databases, but Utah recently passed a law requiring…