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The HIPAA Privacy Rule and its exceptions for disclosing protected health information to law enforcement
Agencies have navigated a patchwork of federal rules, state statutes and local policies that generally allow—but also restrict—release of injured in shootings, balancing investigatory needs and public...
Journalists and the public must treat in public families with heightened legal, ethical and practical care: many federal and state laws generally allow parental access to a child’s records but carve s...
Federal medical-privacy law (the ) creates a default bar on releasing protected health information (PHI) but builds in a set of narrow, enumerated exceptions that allow or require covered entities to ...