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HIPAA doesn’t protect hospital for wrongful disclosure 

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    • November 26, 2012

Federal medical privacy law does not preempt a lawsuit against a hospital that wrongfully disclosed a patient’s mental health records to his estranged wife, West Virginia’s highest court has ruled in reversing a dismissal.
The plaintiff was in the midst of a divorce when he admitted himself for psychiatric treatment » […]

Original post by http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/11/26/hipaa-doesnt-protect-hospital-for-wrongful-disclosure/

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