KTVZ reports: Sen. Ron Wyden, D- Ore., asked Thursday for details about the thoroughness of privacy protections on health information for students who use on-campus medical facilities at colleges and universities nationwide. In a letter to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Wyden expressed concern that the rules protecting medical information collected by campus health facilities are…
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Congresswoman ‘Troubled’ By Privacy Loophole On Student Health Records Confronts Education Department
Tyler Kingkade reports: Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) on Wednesday sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education expressing concern that current federal law may permit universities to review a student’s medical records without their permission. “I am troubled that there appears to be a loophole in federal privacy law that allows the personal and…
LA: Court order for prescription records issued without probable cause violates right of privacy, federal and state
Over on FourthAmendment.com, John Wesley Halls reports a noteworthy case in Louisiana: Court order for prescription records issued without probable cause violates right of privacy, as recognized by federal courts. Also, state’s constitution grants more protection. State v. Pounds, 2015 La. App. LEXIS 485 (La.App. 1 Cir. March 9, 2015) From the opinion: As the Court held in Skinner,…
Some psychologists balk at Minnesota’s medical-records mandate
Marion Renault reports: The patient who walked into Laraine Kurisko’s office had been to psychotherapy before, but hadn’t expected it to come up at a subsequent job interview. Fearing that a potential employer had seen her mental health records electronically, she came to Kurisko, an Edina psychologist who doesn’t use electronic records for patient data. “She was…