The law promotes telemedicine and foresees the reimbursement of medical apps.
On 8 November, the German Bundestag passed the Digitale-Versorgung-Gesetz (DVG), a law for greater digitisation of the health system. Continue reading
GDPR
Can the development of AI in medicine be reconciled with privacy?
The question is asked whenever the unauthorised use of patient health data is discovered. Considering the great potential that artificial intelligence (AI) has for medicine, it is necessary to address the issue in a systematic and transparent way. Continue reading
App and privacy: how to turn your menstrual cycle into money (for others)
Privacy International, an English charity, has reviewed the most popular menstrual control apps and found that some of them share data with Facebook. Continue reading
In UK Healthcare is the sector most affected by personal data breaches
Figures obtained by data security solutions firm Egress, a data security solutions company, via a Freedom of Information (FOI) request reveal that 4,856 breaches were reported to the ICO (the Information Commissioner’s Office) between 1st January and 20th June 2019. Continue reading
Privacy By Design: theory or methodology?
Privacy by Default and Privacy by Design are two principles that GDPR calls to mind and that data controllers must follow when applying in practice the protection of personal and sensitive data. More than a year after the GDPR came into force, what has actually changed in the way healthcare software is designed and implemented? Continue reading
Doctor-patient communication must go through the EMR
Doctors use email, WhatsApp, SMS to communicate with their patients. With serious security and privacy risks, dispersing these messages outside of the EMR. Continue reading
Health apps and privacy: that’s where our data ends up!
A study appeared last Wednesday in BMJ describes a disturbing scenario regarding health apps and their data management. Users’ privacy is at risk! Continue reading
Why privacy-by-design in healthcare is a utopia
GDPR introduces the principles of “privacy by default” and privacy by design”, on the base of which all company processes have to be re-designed; a change that deeply impact the healthcare information systems. Easy to say but very hard to realise. Continue reading
