Richard Read reports: University of Oregon Provost Frances Bronet acted decisively last month after the school received nationwide criticism for accessing a rape survivor’s therapy records for a lawsuit. Bronet assured students in a March 20 memo that UO’s counseling center would keep records confidential barring extraordinary circumstances. She urged them to use university mental-health services without fear. Meanwhile, The Oregonian/OregonLive has learned, the…
Category: Healthcare
Electronic Health Records and Adolescent Privacy
Charles G. Kels, JD writes to the Editors of JAMA: In their Viewpoint on the confidentiality of electronic health records (EHRs), Dr Bayer and colleagues made a compelling case that the benefits of EHRs must be weighed against the challenges they pose to adolescent and parental privacy. Read his full letter and the authors’ reply on JAMA.
Military: The “precarious balance” of medical privacy and command curiosity
Zachary D Spilman writes: There is an interesting article about mental health issues in the recent issue of the Military Law Review: Major Cara-Ann M. Hamaguchi, A Precarious Balance: Managing Stigma, Confidentiality, and Command Awareness in the Mental Health Arena, 222 Mil. L. Rev. 156 (Winter 2015) (available here). The article: examines the conflict between privacy…
UK: Your privacy for sale: From plastic surgery to eating disorders, medical secrets sold to the cold call sharks
Katherine Faulkner, Paul Bentley, and Lucy Osborne continue the Daily Mail‘s reporting on the sale of personal information in the UK: A firm linked to the sale of NHS patient data is offering details of eating disorder sufferers for just 12p a head, the Mail can reveal today. It has also offered to supply names…