Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced that he is leading a coalition of a dozen states in filing a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari to review a federal appellate court decision upholding two provisions of Texas law that significantly restrict access to abortion services in that state. The provisions…
Category: Healthcare
South Korea: Medical data delivers yet another identity crisis
In today’s installment of Re-identification of “Anonymized” Data is Often Too Damned Easy, Naked Security reports on a re-identification study by Latanya Sweeney and Ji Su Yoo: …. A pair of researchers at Harvard University wondered if similar problems might exist for South Koreans, whose RRNs [Resident Registration Number] are used as database indexes in all walks of life,…
Patient privacy paramount (editorial)
On September 26, I noted that the Oregon state board for psychology proposed disciplinary action for the University of Oregon psychologist who turned over a student’s counseling records to university attorneys. The psychologist was the head of the university counseling service. Today, the The Register Guard has an editorial that begins: The University of Oregon is…
ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS: Nonfederal Efforts to Help Achieve Health Information Interoperability
From a newly released GAO report: Representatives from the 18 nonfederal initiatives GAO reviewed described a variety of efforts they are undertaking to achieve or facilitate electronic health record (EHR) interoperability, but most of these initiatives remain works in progress. EHR interoperability is the ability of systems to exchange electronic health information with other systems…