Anirban Roy reports: … Senior Malware Researcher at Kaspersky Lab, Roman Unuchek, has examined how a number of fitness wristbands interact with a smartphone, and discovered some surprising results. According to his research, the authentication method in several popular fitness wearables allows a third party app to connect invisibly to the device, execute commands, and, in…
Category: Healthcare
Including psychotherapy records in interoperable EHR systems is a really bad idea
Clinical psychologist Peter Zelles had a commentary in the Star Tribune last week with which I wholeheartedly agree. Minnesota is one of the first two states to mandate that all health care providers use an “interoperable” electronic health care record (EHR), allowing all doctors to view every other doctor’s notes — supposedly privately and with a purpose. Since 2014…
UO returns student’s confidential therapy records
Josephine Woolington reports: University of Oregon Provost Frances Bronet said Friday that the UO has returned a student’s confidential therapy records to the UO Counseling and Testing Center. […] Bronet’s announcement followed national criticism and debate about whether universities should be able to access confidential health records under a federal student privacy law. […] Bronet…
Apple Clarifies Requirements For Medical Research Apps
Laura Northrup writes: Earlier this week, Apple announced HeathKit (sic), an open-source software framework to help medical researchers use iPhones to gather data for medical research. This raised some concerns about researchers’ plans to share data collected from the apps, as well as consent and privacy. Now Apple has revised their App Store guidelines before the…