The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has taken more than 20 enforcement actions concerning patients’ rights to timely access to their medical records from their provider. Those enforcement actions and their monetary penalties can be found linked from here. For comparison purposes between the GDPR and HIPAA, here…
Category: Healthcare
Missouri Lawmaker Wants to Ban Residents’ Travels to Other States for Abortions
Chris Walker reports: Republican lawmaker in Missouri is hoping to ban residents in her state from traveling to other states to obtain abortion services through an enforcement mechanism that is similar to that of Texas’s restrictive abortion ban. State Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman (R) has attached amendments to a number of abortion bills that are currently being…
Texas Supreme Court Deals Abortion Providers A ‘Devastating’ Blow
Lydia O’Connor reports: The Texas Supreme Court dealt a blow to abortion providers Friday by ruling that state officials are not responsible for enforcing the state’s six-week abortion ban and therefore cannot be subjected to such lawsuits. The 23-page, unanimous decision is a “devastating” setback for Texans, Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America said following…
‘Absolute authority’: Call to halt plan to collect all Victorians’ medical records
David Estcourt and Rachel Eddie report: The Law Institute of Victoria has asked the Andrews government to withdraw a bill, which would centralise the medical records of every patient in the public health system, over privacy concerns and because patients cannot opt out of the scheme. […] Under the plan, patients would have no ability…