Cheryl Clark has an update to a previously noted surveillance sting that has had a huge privacy backlash: Sharp Grossmont Hospital has apologized for releasing 14 video clips that included women undergoing obstetric surgery, an error it said constituted a breach of their medical privacy and has led to state and federal agency notification. “We are…
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The Precision Medicine Initiative and Privacy: Will Any Legal Protections Apply? – Report
The World Privacy Forum has released a new report authored by Robert Gellman and Pam Dixon, The Precision Medicine Initiative and Privacy: Will Any Legal Protections Apply? From their brief summary of the report: This report reviews privacy law applicable to the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI), and the large medical information and biospecimen database at its center….
Posting ‘Anonymized’ Research Data May Pose Threats to Patient Privacy
You may not have access to the journal article, but here’s a press release from Wolters Kluwer about a new article in Anesthesia & Analgesia. *** May 16, 2016 – Many healthcare journals encourage researchers to post their original data online, in the interest of research openness. But open sharing of research databases can place private patient…
Hospital goofed, provided videos to doctor’s attorney that showed patients in operating room
Miriam Raftery has an update to a story previously noted on this blog: May 12, 2016 (La Mesa) – Sharp Healthcare has issued a revised statement regarding an investigation that used hidden videos to catch a doctor now accused of stealing narcotic drugs off an anesthesia cart at Sharp Grossmont Hospital. ECM reported on privacy concerns…