Severino said the proposal looks like an effort “to twist HIPAA to use it as a bludgeon against the Dobbs decision and interfere with cooperation with law enforcement.”
PA State Senator and Gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano proposed rolling back medical privacy protections during the early days of COVID.
Verily, the life sciences wing of Google parent company Alphabet Inc., will not comply with a request from lawmakers to drop its mandatory Google account sign-in for its Chinese virus screening website. The Masters of the Universe also believe they can ignore HIPAA laws because they are “not acting as a covered entity or business associate.”
HHS enforces HIPAA to protect patients’ medical privacy but will allow first responders access to a patient’s viral history.
An individual claiming to be the Google whistleblower who came forward about the tech giant’s secret access to millions of private health records is calling for full transparency, saying that patients must be given the opportunity to opt out of Google’s intrusive data collection efforts.
U.S. Federal regulators have reportedly begun an investigation into a cloud computing deal between Google and Ascension Health which involved Google collecting detailed medical records on millions of Americans.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway stated that using regulatory power or executive action to combat mass shootings in a manner similar to the bump stock ban is “on the
A new lawsuit alleges that information on shared medical records could be combined with Google’s location data to reveal identifying information about patients.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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
