Morning Headlines 8/7/23
New Google alert will tell you when you appear in search, help remove personal information
Google rolls out a new dashboard to alert users when their personal information – including medical records – appears in search results links.
Practice of Telemedicine: Listening Sessions
The Drug Enforcement Administration will conduct listening sessions on September 12-13 to gain input about prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine without requiring an in-person evaluation.
August 4, 2023 Notice of Privacy Incident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH)
Brigham and Women’s Hospital alerts 1,000 research study participants that someone used the free, online Tableau Public visualization tool to create and share graphs, which were later found to have included a publicly accessible link that displayed patient information.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.