Mark Oswald reports: A federal judge has ruled that no constitutional right to privacy was violated when a New Mexico State Police officer used his personal cellphone to take and text to friends pictures of the body of a Santa Fe-area man who had been shot and killed by police in 2011. In an order…
Category: Healthcare
UK: Data security: Will new consent and opt-out plans protect our personal health information?
With the problematic care.data program now thankfully dead, Dr Neil Bhatia turns his attention to current proposals. He writes, in part: Dame Caldicott’s review says the proposed consent/opt-out model will need to be piloted extensively before being introduced. However the opt-out proposals are potentially open to abuse, if, as suggested, one option is to have ‘NHS’…
Privacy Rules, Separation of Systems Hamper Behavioral Healthcare
Amanda Eisenberg reports: Technology is helping close the gap between physical and behavioral healthcare, but professionals say there’s a long way to go in integrating information from the two disciplines. As patient data becomes more easily accessible—by both physicians and hackers—in the age of electronic health records and health information exchanges, privacy concerns have outweighed…
Sanger woman dies, but her legal battle with HealthComp continues
Pablo Lopez reports: Debora Rose of Sanger was a hardworking single mother who enjoyed a good laugh and never missed a sports event involving her grandchildren. When Rose died last month at age 60, she was in the midst of a legal fight with HealthComp Inc., a health-plan administrator for private companies. In her Fresno County…