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Healthtech: How Blockchain Can Simplify Healthcare Compliance, Kathryn M. Bennett
Healthtech: How Blockchain Can Simplify Healthcare Compliance, Kathryn M. Bennett
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
This Note broadly explores solutions to modern-day accessibility and security problems latent in electronic health records. Specifically, this Note discusses HIPAA and HITECH, the current law in place, and how blockchain technology can be used to fix the accessibility and security problems of current electronic health records. This Note proposes that blockchain technology can help a healthcare industry struggling to adhere to the current rule of law in an era of Big Data. Further, Blockchain technology can help individual consumers, particularly those with significant health issues, obtain the best possible medical care while simultaneously keeping their private and sensitive information …
Comment: Microchipping Employees And Privacy Implications - Does My Boss Know Where I Am Right Now?, Samuel E. Simpson
Comment: Microchipping Employees And Privacy Implications - Does My Boss Know Where I Am Right Now?, Samuel E. Simpson
Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review
Existing law surrounding employee privacy does not adequately address privacy concerns raised by microchip programs. A handful of states have passed laws that prohibit mandatory employee microchipping programs, but the vast majority have not passed any preventative legislation. In states that have passed laws, the limited protections that do exist fail to address a wide range of issues that have not yet come up in the context of employer-provided technology. This comment will briefly overview employee privacy law to highlight some of the issues that will arise if the law remains untouched. Then, it will propose solutions that would serve …