Whoa. PTI reports: The provisions of Medical Council of India to protect confidentiality in patients’ records cannot override statutes of Right to Information Act, Central Information Commission has held. Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu held that after RTI Act has come into being, any rules which are not in conformity with the disclosure norms will be overridden…
Category: Healthcare
When Keeping A Secret Trumps The Need For Care
This is a really important article that I would encourage all parents to read. Maanvi Singh reports: Dana Lam was insured under her parent’s health plan until the end of 2014, thanks to a provision of the Affordable Care Act that allows young adults to stay on family health insurance until they turn 26. The…
Oregon House unanimously passes bill to protect confidentiality of sexual-assault survivors
Richard Read reports: The Oregon House unanimously passed a bill Monday that would protect the confidentiality of conversations between sexual-assault survivors and their advocates. Legislators wrote the bill to keep information from being released by clinics including college-counseling centers, such as the University of Oregon office that gave UO lawyers therapy records of a student who sued the school, alleging she’d been raped by…
AU: Some chemists are selling patients’ prescription information so drug companies can increase their profits
news.com.au reports: Some chemists are selling their patients (sic) prescription information to a global health information company which sells it on to pharmaceutical companies trying to boost their sales. Doctor and consumer groups have expressed outrage about the practice they fear may impinge on patient privacy. […] …. the Australian general manager of health information giant IMS,…