Although we have laws to govern our medical privacy, little information can reveal a lot about patients. Genetic testing is the problem because while it helps us it also gives out more information that is supposed to be private and it seems that they don’t know how to handle the problem.

Genetic data is generally covered by confidentiality and personal data protection laws, combined in most countries with recourse to over-arching constitutional protection, or human rights legislation.

A woman in Milwaukee is suing Community Memorial Hospital in Menomonee Falls because she says that they gave personal medical information to her mother. She says that while in the hospital to give birth a nurse came into her room and asked her personal and private questions in front of her mother. She felt forced to answer the medical questions but the problem was, her mother did not know of her other medical conditions.

The Center for Women and Families will give rape victims something that is missing from most medical centers; Privacy. The new clinic will have medical care, counseling and criminal investigation all in one place to minimize the trauma of the victims.

Kaiser Permanente in California came up with the idea to take all patients records and change them over to electronic formats but that was easier said than done apparently. There are undertaking a lot of problems and the SVP of the project has quit.