The American Medical Association has issued the following press release: What if patients no longer felt safe sharing personal–yet crucial–information with their physicians? A case to be heard by the Washington Supreme Court threatens the integrity of the patient-physician relationship, potentially raising new obstacles to communication and trust. In Volk v. DeMeerleer, a treating psychiatrist…
Category: Healthcare
AU: “Significant privacy concerns” over myHealth Record system
Harriet Alexander reports: New laws to give doctors and pharmacists instant access to medical records may pose a risk to human rights by violating privacy. A parliamentary joint committee on human rights has called on Health Minister Sussan Ley to explain what safeguards are in place to protect Australians’ privacy when their health records are…
EASA in Consultations over Medical Privacy Policy
Caroline Bruneau reports: The European Aviation Safety Agency has begun to consider new recommendations related to medical privacy in response to the suicide flight of Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz, EASA chief Patrick Ky revealed during a recent press breakfast organized in Paris by French aviation journalists association AJPAE. Ky revealed the agency has consulted with psychiatrists as part…
Retired Mounties sue RCMP over disclosure of their mental health records
Keith Fraser reports: A class action lawsuit filed in Vancouver alleges that the RCMP has breached the privacy of a number of Mounties by wrongfully disclosing their mental health records. The suit says that the disclosure of the records in 2012 was done to undermine the work of Dr. Michael Webster, a longtime RCMP psychologist…