Evan Schuman has an OpEd that begins: When Target announced this week that it was selling its pharmacy business to CVS, it was good news for CVS, which will add more than 1,660 pharmacies across 47 states — plus 80 clinics — to its network of some 7,800 drugstores and almost 1,000 clinics. But lost amid…
Category: Healthcare
Health Minister announces changes coming to PHIPA in Ontario
Emily Ng, Daniel G.C. Glover and Shanon Grauer of McCarthy Tétrault LLP write: The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has announced in a news release that it intends to introduce amendments to the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) to strengthen PHIPA and protect patient privacy. We have confirmed that the intent is to reintroduce the prior Electronic Personal Health…
New Poll Shows Two‒Thirds Of Doctors Reluctant To Share Health Data With Patients
Dan Munro reports: The polling question was simple. Should patients have access to their entire medical record ‒ including MD notes, any audio recordings, etc…? For many, the response by over 2,300 physicians came as no real surprise. 49% ‒ Access to all records should only be given on a case‒by‒case basis 34% ‒ Yes,…
UK: Careless
The ICO dropped the ball spectacularly on care.data, anxious to enable what they must have thought was an important undertaking by a valued stakeholder. — Tim Turner If you’re an American who thinks HIPAA is too permissive on data sharing without consent, you should learn more about what’s going on in the U.K. Tim Turner writes:…