Hannah Martin reports: Do you remember when the floppy-disk was more than the ‘save’ button in Microsoft Word? Or the goose-bump inducing sound of dial-up internet ringing through your ears? Technology has come a long way since then. In a New Zealand hospital today a surgeon can assist a robotic operation; an anxious child can go [Read More…]
Colby Hamilton reports: Federal prosecutors won their motion to compel the deposition of an attorney in an ongoing Federal Housing Act case Friday, allowing them to ask a court-narrowed set of questions about a landlord’s efforts to keep a chronically ill tenant from acquiring an emotion support dog in his [Read More…]
Lev Facher reports: The American Medical Association is opposing a change to patient privacy laws that would allow doctors to more freely share information about a patient’s history of substance use, a proposal that has divided the health care community and highlighted some of the challenges of addressing the opioid [Read More…]
Stilgherrian reports: If only three percent of Australians are opting out of My Health Record, it would seem that privacy advocates have made little difference. Despite all the noise, so far the opt-out rate appears to be the same as in the UK and Austria. Privacy advocates have, broadly speaking, failed [Read More…]