Vanderbilt University Medical Center is facing a federal civil rights investigation after turning the medical records of transgender patients over to Tennessee’s attorney general, hospital officials have confirmed.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is facing a federal civil rights investigation after turning the medical records of transgender patients over to Tennessee’s attorney general, hospital officials have confirmed.
Wow and a half — everywhere I’ve worked in the health biz, even before HIPAA, patient confidentiality was the prime directive.
The article doesn’t even say there was a search warrant, only a request for records from Tennessee’s horrific Attorney General. If there was a legal demand for the records, it should’ve been fought, but instead the records were turned over pronto, with no redactions of personal information, and the patients weren’t notified until months later.
In a sane world, that would cost Vanderbilt a lot of millions of dollars, but I’ve looked at a map of the galaxy and you can’t get to a sane world from here.