John O’Brien reports: A Syracuse doctor has been charged with hiding two surveillance cameras in a bathroom of a hospital’s intensive care unit. Dr. Jeffrey Gould, 32, admitted hiding two “spy pens” in a third-floor unisex bathroom in Crouse Hospital’s ICU last month, according to a Syracuse police report. One camera was taped to the ridge…
Category: Healthcare
Federal Researchers Build Massive Online Database of Genomic Data
Mohana Ravindranath reports: A new online portal would let scientists access vast amounts of genomic data from patients involved in heart, lung, blood and sleep research studies. The hub, called GenPort, is supposed to help researchers look into the results of several studies at once, tracking individuals in different trials who might share the same characteristics, known as…
Facebook capture of medical info from web searches by users violates HIPAA and other laws, suit says
Martha Neil reports: A 2012 federal lawsuit over Facebook tracking of users filed by attorney Paul Kiesel was dismissed last year, with leave to refile. U.S. District Judge Edward Davila said the plaintiffs in the San Jose, California, case didn’t make clear how they suffered “a realistic economic harm or loss” due to continued tracking…
Federal officials, advocates push pill-tracking databases
Matthew Perrone reports: The nation’s top health officials are stepping up calls to require doctors to log in to pill-tracking databases before prescribing painkillers and other high-risk drugs. The move is part of a multi-pronged strategy by the Obama administration to tame an epidemic of abuse and death tied to opioid painkillers like Vicodin and…