Arianna Coghill reports: With Roe v. Wade at risk of being overturned by the Supreme Court, 2022 is shaping up to be a historically bad year for reproductive rights. And while anti-choice lawmakers have been working toward this for decades, they’ve only gotten bolder with their moves in the past few years. If the court does away with Roe, 26 states will…
Category: Healthcare
Calls for HIPAA Lawsuit Follow Dismissal of Charges Against Lizelle Herrera
Note: Any informed reader will already know that HIPAA has no private cause of action. I wish the headline of this news story had not been misleading, but I suppose Newsweek’s editors could say, “Well people did call for it, so we’re reporting it even though it can’t happen.” Andrew Stanton reports: Calls mounted on…
Leaked: Draft Version of the European Health Data Space Regulation
Kristof Van Quathem, Sam Jungyun Choi, and Anna Oberschelp de Meneses of Covington and Burling write: On March 3, 2022, a leaked version of the proposal for a regulation setting up the European Health Data Space was published. The draft regulation will set up a common framework across EU Member States for the sharing and…
Violation Of Patient Privacy During ECG, Hiranandani Hospital Suspends Housekeeping Staff
Medical Dialogues reports: Mumbai: Following the controversy at the Hiranandani Hospital where a housekeeping staff walked in during a 35-year- old woman author’s electrocardiogram (ECG) test, the internal committee of the hospital suspended the housekeeper on Tuesday. Earlier the committee told that they would conduct an investigation on Monday. As a result, they submitted the…