Troy Parks writes: What happens to physician-patient confidentiality when any government agency can obtain a patient’s prescription records without a warrant? A case before a state supreme court threatens to keep these indiscriminant lines of investigation wide open. Lewis v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County, a case before the Supreme Court of the State…
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E-health opt-out records a ‘huge invasion of privacy’
Corinne Reichert reports: The Australian Privacy Foundation has accused the Senate of being “dangerously naive” in thinking that opt-out e-health records could be secured against breaches of privacy. Bernard Robertson-Dunn, a member of the Privacy Foundation who has also constructed IT systems for several government departments, said it is “patently absurd” for the Senate inquiry…
WV: Davis calls out majority again in another DHHR dissent
Jessica Karmasek reports on a case in West Virginia that seems to pit the state trying to protect patient privacy rights under HIPAA against those trying to advocate for patients. While patient advocacy is generally considered a Good Thing, does providing patient records to a non-covered entity like Legal Aid without patient consent violate HIPAA?…
AU: Patient’s intimate photo nightmare exposes privacy gap in NSW
Amy Corderoy reports: Brieana Rose (not her real name) could not have been more vulnerable. Unconscious on an operating table, having gynaecological surgery to see whether she had cancer. She could never have known that one of the people charged with looking after her would instead take advantage of her, violating her trust by taking…