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,…
Category: Healthcare
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…
Nigeria: Why National Health Act Is Unconstitutional
Sonnie Ekwowusi, a Legal Practitioner in Lagos, has an OpEd in TheGuardian (Lagos) that begins: It is no longer news that President Goodluck Jonathan has signed the National Health Bill 2014 (NHB 2014) into law. It is worthwhile to briefly recall that long before the said signing of the NHB 2014 Bill into law, the bill…
UK: NHS care.data – a horribly botched operation
John Leonard reports: The care.data programme currently being piloted in a few hundred GP practices before a planned national rollout expands NHS England’s collection of medical data for analytical use. Since 1989 information on hospital stays has been collected for analysis and the new programme will extend this to cover data resulting from patients’ visits…