BBC reports: A woman found out her father’s death was connected to playing bagpipes after he was used as a case study in a medical report. Doctors from Wythenshawe Hospital described a rare case of what they called “bagpipe lung” in a 61-year-old patient, in the journal Thorax. Bruce Campbell’s daughter, Erin Tabinor said his family was not…
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WI: Patient Loses Appeal on Confidential Health Records, Access Not a “Release”
Joe Forward writes: A state appeals court has clarified what it means to “release” confidential health care records in violation of state law, rejecting a patient’s claim that a health care provider’s employees violated the law when accessing his medical records. Daniel Wall sued Gunderson Lutheran Health System and two of its employees, arguing the…
Facebook recommended that this psychiatrist’s patients friend each other
Kashmir Hill writes: Facebook’s ability to figure out the “people we might know” is sometimes eerie. Many a Facebook user has been creeped out when a one-time Tinder date or an ex-boss from 10 years ago suddenly pops up as a friend recommendation. How does the big blue giant know? While some of these incredibly accurate…
Your prescriptions aren’t private, and if your state doesn’t require court authorization to access your history, well….
Add this investigation to your must-read list. Mark Greenblatt and Angela M. Hill of Scripps News report: The prescriptions you have in your medicine cabinet might not be as private as you believe they are. Thirty-one states grant law enforcement warrantless access to databases containing drug histories, and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is pushing hard…