Olivia Carville reports: Three hospital workers have been charged under Ontario’s health privacy law for snooping into former mayor Rob Ford’s medical records after he was diagnosed with cancer. If convicted, this will be the first time in Ontario’s history that an individual has been successfully prosecuted under the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA)…
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Vermont Case on Healthcare Database Heading to Supreme Court
Ed Silverstein reports: A case from Vermont involving Liberty Mutual and its participation in a state database is heading to the U.S. Supreme Court. The specific issue in this case, Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, is whether self-funded employer plans may be required to supply claims data to state all-payer claims databases (APCDs). The plaintiff,…
Ca: City’s 311 hotline faces a new challenge: suicide calls
Patty Winsa reports: Power outages and downed tree limbs after the ice storm of 2013, residents without water for days on end following the deep freeze of 2015. These are the kind of crises that drive up calls to 311, the city hotline that typically deals with more mundane complaints, about garbage pickup, broken traffic lights…
Schools Implant IUDs in Girls as Young as 6th Grade Without Their Parents Knowing
Steven Ertelt and Rebecca Downs write: Earlier this month, LifeNews.com reported on a high school in Seattle, Washington that is now implanting intrauterine devices (IUD), as well as other forms of birth control and doing so without parental knowledge or permission. The high school, Chief Sealth International, a public school, began offering the devices in 2010, made…