Newborns Get Routine Heel Blood Tests, But Should States Keep Those Samples?
Privacy-related concerns have grown about the sometimes decades-long storage and use of genetic material from newborn screenings.
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Private Sector Wants To Protect Online Health Privacy, Critics Say It Can’t Be Trusted
Many companies in the health tech sector have shockingly leaky privacy practices.
Oregon Faces Class-Action Lawsuit After Vaccine Data Release
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A state employee sued the Department of Administrative Services after it inadvertently released the vaccination status of more than 40,000 state employees.
Senate Clears Bill Allowing Patients to Shield Medical Info from Policyholders
The proposed privacy law heads to the governor, allowing patients to redirect their explanation of benefits away from a policyholder for any reason.
A medical privacy law that allows patients to tell health insurance companies to shield sensitive health information from policyholders cleared its final legislative hurdle Monday, passing the Senate 17 to 14.
Privacy Rights Can Threaten Physician-Patient Relationship
The author comments on Edward Snowden’s leak of top-secret documents asserting that we should demand a right to privacy, which is our fundamental intellectual and spiritual property.
