From a new blog post from Protenus: This fall, the VIPs facing the highest levels of media scrutiny are Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The candidates and their surrogates badger each other to release their most recent healthcare records, and so do voters, pundits and medical professionals. Clinton and Trump are the oldest major-party presidential nominees in history and…
Category: Healthcare
Privacy of Nonparty Patients
Andrew S. Jacob of Gordon & Rees LLP writes: The public has a right to every man’s evidence, unless that evidence is protected by a constitutional, common-law, or statutory privilege. How should this doctrine apply where a litigant seeks discovery of the identity of a nonparty patient who may have been a witness to negligence…
Wythenshawe Hospital ‘bagpipe lung’ case study inquiry launched
BBC reports: A woman found out her father’s death was connected to playing bagpipes after he was used as a case study in a medical report. Doctors from Wythenshawe Hospital described a rare case of what they called “bagpipe lung” in a 61-year-old patient, in the journal Thorax. Bruce Campbell’s daughter, Erin Tabinor said his family was not…
WI: Patient Loses Appeal on Confidential Health Records, Access Not a “Release”
Joe Forward writes: A state appeals court has clarified what it means to “release” confidential health care records in violation of state law, rejecting a patient’s claim that a health care provider’s employees violated the law when accessing his medical records. Daniel Wall sued Gunderson Lutheran Health System and two of its employees, arguing the…