KTVZ reports: The Oregon Senate on Monday unanimously approved a bill co-sponsored by Bend Republican Tim Knopp to protect the rights of university and college students regarding medical, counseling and mental health records. Knopp joined Sen. Sara Gelser (D-Corvallis) and Rep. Ann Lininger (D-Lake Oswego) as chief sponsors of Senate Bill (SB) 1558-A, which was…
Category: Healthcare
Delaware health department suppresses information in the name of privacy
Allan Loudell writes: It’s certainly not the first time the Delaware Division of Public Health has done this, and it’s absolutely frustrating. A day after announcing the first confirmed case of the Zika virus here in Delaware, health officials released a very few additional details. It was a wasted exercise. We still don’t know where…
Big Pharma’s bet on Big Data creates opportunities and risks
John Miller reports: Novartis wants every puff of its emphysema drug Onbrez to go into the cloud. The Swiss drugmaker has teamed up with U.S. technology firm Qualcomm to develop an internet-connected inhaler that can send information about how often it is used to remote computer servers known as the cloud. This kind of new…
UK: ICO fines Pharmacy2U Ltd £130,000 for selling patients’ data without consent
From the ICO: An online pharmacy that sold details of more than 20,000 customers to marketing companies has been fined £130,000. Pharmacy 2U offered the customer names and addresses for sale through an online marketing list company. The ICO investigation found that Pharmacy 2U had not informed its customers that it intended to sell their…