Jason C. Gavejian, Joseph J. Lazzarotti, and Cecilie E. Read of JacksonLewis write: California passed Assembly Bill (AB) 2089, which amends the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) to include mental health application information under the definition of medical information. Under the revisions to CMIA, mental health application information is defined as information related to a…
Category: Healthcare
These male politicians are pushing for women who receive abortions to be punished with prison time
Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken report: All but one of the laws would have passed with Republican votes alone, and a few were passed without a single vote from a Democratic lawmaker. Republican legislators almost always voted in favor of the restrictions, which experts say shows how the issue has been much more of a…
Research: A digital mask to safeguard patient privacy
Yahan Yang, Junfeng Lyu, Ruixin Wang, Quan Wen, Lanqin Zhao, Wenben Chen, Shaowei Bi, Jie Meng, Keli Mao, Yu Xiao, Yingying Liang, Danqi Zeng, Zijing Du, Yuxuan Wu, Tingxin Cui, Lixue Liu, Wai Cheng Iao, Xiaoyan Li, Carol Y. Cheung, Jianhua Zhou, Youjin Hu, Lai Wei, Iat Fan Lai, Xinping Yu, …Haotian Lin Nature Medicine,…
The Data Broker Caught Running Anti-Abortion Ads—to People Sitting in Clinics
Justin Sherman reports: In July, the House Oversight Committee sent letters to data brokers SafeGraph, Digital Envoy, Placer.ai, Gravy Analytics, and Babel Street as well as five personal health apps interrogating their collection and sale of people’s reproductive health information. Before that, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., wrote letters to SafeGraph and Placer.ai about their sales…