Lawsuit: Google Obtained ‘Sensitive and Intimate’ Medical Records
A new lawsuit alleges that information on shared medical records could be combined with Google’s location data to reveal identifying information about patients.
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Father Discovers Hospital Denied Him Access to Child’s Medical Records
An Iowa father was shocked after finding out a hospital denied him access to his child’s medical records, prompting him to ask a local news station to investigate.
House Investigators: Abortion Clinics, Fetal Tissue Companies Violated Medical Privacy Rules
The final report by the House Select Investigative Panel on the secretive ‘fetal tissue’ business says abortion clinics and tissue-procurement companies “committed systemic violations” of federal medical privacy laws to maximize their sale of body parts from aborted babies.
Student Diagnosed With TB at Nebraska School Where 18 Percent Are Refugees
Two hundred thirty seven of Benson Magnet High School’s 1,273 students, or 18.6 percent, are refugees, according to Omaha Public School’s District English Language Learner/Refugee Report, 2015-16.
Pro-Life Heads Press House Leaders: Defund ‘Barbaric’ Planned Parenthood
The leaders assert in a letter that the House’s Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives has worked to uncover Planned Parenthood’s fetal tissue trafficking program and its “turn-key business relationship” with biomedical procurement company StemExpress. The outcome, they say, is that the panel has “established probable cause that federal law prohibiting the for-profit exchange of fetal tissue had been violated.”
Report: Police to Interview Everyone on Prince Flight That Made Emergency Landing
The Mirror is reporting that police investigators will be interviewing everyone who was on the private plane carrying the late pop star Prince that made an emergency landing at Quad City International Airport in Moline, Illinois in the early hours of April 15.
USC Drops Sexual Questions from Mandatory Class
The University of Southern California (USC) on Tuesday dropped several “intrusive” and invasive personal questions, which asked students about their sexual activity, from a mandatory online course.
VA Employee Posted Vet’s ‘Exposed Buttocks’ on Facebook and 10,000 Other Violations
The Department of Veterans Affairs racked up over 10,000 serious breaches of privacy since 2011, making it “the nation’s most prolific violator of laws protecting patients’ personal medical information,” as the Washington Examiner puts it.
A New Ethical Dominion for Healthcare, from Scarcity to Abundance: Metcalfe’s Law + Moore’s Law + Pragmatism = A New Cure Strategy for GOP
I. A New Ethical Dominion: Maximizing Health in the Information Age. In the wake of two Supreme Court decisions ratifying the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, there’s a new reality in American health, made possible by new technologies: It’s actually
