Lisa Schencker reports: In a win for insurers and a loss for states trying to collect data for healthcare reform efforts, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday decided 6-2 that a federal law protects a self-funded insurer from having to share certain information with the state of Vermont. A Vermont official, however, expressed optimism after…
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Will cancer patients be the next victims of the data privacy debate?
Mikkael A. Sekres, MD, MS and Brian J. Bolwell, MD have an OpEd on FoxNews of note as the issue they address goes beyond cancer patients and potentially affects all of us. … Articles about cancer research in scholarly journals are the lifeblood of the fight against cancer. For doctors and researchers, flagship journals such…
WhatsApp is not secure enough for patient info: Dutch privacy watchdog
Doctors who use the instant messaging service WhatsApp to communicate with each other about patients should stop doing so, according to the Dutch privacy watchdog Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens. Read more on DutchNews.nl. And what apps could American doctors use to communicate about patients that would be HIPAA-compliant in terms of security?
AU: Patient privacy breach ‘is tip of the iceberg’: cancer patient
Michael Owen reports: Cancer patient Andrew Knox has called for an independent judicial review into the South Australian government’s patient record management system, saying a fresh furore over serious privacy breaches is just the “tip of the iceberg”. Mr Knox, 67, said yesterday his medical records relating to an incorrect chemotherapy dose may have been…