Vanderbilt University Medical Center is being accused of violating the privacy of its transgender clinic patients by turning their records over to Tennsessee’s attorney general
HIPPA makes it not a request, I’d be surprised if this wasn’t considered a MASSIVE HIPPA violation as this is the kind of reason it exists: so patients can receive help without worrying about the consequences of doing so.
Yeah, like I thought. As said in another comment there might be some ground where the hospital makes you sign a document to void your rights under that law unless requested. Unless there is a protection from that, anyone can just invert the default choice.
HIPPA makes it not a request, I’d be surprised if this wasn’t considered a MASSIVE HIPPA violation as this is the kind of reason it exists: so patients can receive help without worrying about the consequences of doing so.
Yeah, like I thought. As said in another comment there might be some ground where the hospital makes you sign a document to void your rights under that law unless requested. Unless there is a protection from that, anyone can just invert the default choice.
While I’m sure lawyers have looked at it (and I’m not one), my understanding is that you cannot sign away your statutory rights in most cases.