Waivers to the Ryan Haight Act and the Future of Telemedicine
Quinn Hartman Under the Ryan Haight Act (RHA), the federal government has tightly restricted the prescription of controlled substances through telemedicine. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, however, which led millions to rely on telemedicine, lawmakers have introduced and renewed waivers to these restrictions to ensure continued access to treatment. By relaxing enforcement, those waivers have inadvertently spawned a resurgence in the unlawful activities that the RHA aimed to prevent. This Article proposes that special registration, a reliable process allowing legitimate providers to apply for the ability to prescribe virtually, is a better alternative to renewing the waivers, as it preserves telemedicine...
BLOG POST: The Golden State Killer and the Privacy Risks of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing
*This writing is a blog post. It is not a published IPTF Journal article. Jordan Rose In 2018, a breakthrough in a 40-year-old unsolved case involving a series of homicides, sexual assaults, and burglaries, known as the Golden State Killer, shocked the public.[1] Law enforcement used an innovative, yet controversial, approach to identify the suspect.[2] Investigators uploaded an unidentified DNA sample from one of the original crime scenes to GEDMatch, an open-source genetic database specifically designed to provide consumers a method of identifying genetic relatives by uploading their DNA samples, rather than to help identify criminal suspects.[3] Over four months,...