The Information Commissioner has been considering the emerging practice of insurance companies obtaining medical records by using patients’ subject access rights. We recognise that insurance companies may have a genuine need to review medical information about its customers when providing policies like life and critical illness cover. To enable this, the Access to Medical Reports…
Category: Healthcare
White House Releases Draft Privacy Principles for the Precision Medicine Initiative
Jennifer S. Geetter and Chelsea M. Rutherford of McDermott Will & Emery write: Six months after the Precision Medicine Initiative’s (Initiative’s) debut, the White House has released a working draft of proposed privacy and trust principles (the Principles) to govern future design and development efforts for the national research cohort envisioned by the Initiative. This cohort will be a…
KR: [Editorial] Patient records leak
From an editorial in today’s Korea Herald: Medical information on nearly 90 percent of Korean population was sold as big data to a multination firm, raising concerns about safekeeping of the highly confidential information. A company specializing in developing medical fees settlement programs used by hospitals and the Korea Pharmaceutical Information Center — which distributed free…
UK: GPs can refuse insurers’ requests for patient records, commissioner’s office rules
Alex Matthews-King reports: Insurance companies requesting GPs release their patient’s entire medical record under the Data Protection Act are abusing fundamental rights enshrined in EU law, the Information Commissioner’s Office has ruled. GPs are no longer obliged to comply with requests from insurers even when a patient has given consent and could even be in…