The proposed rule would close a loophole in HIPAA that allows doctors and nurses to call the cops on their patients.
reporters that the change is necessary because healthcare workers told them they wanted better legal protection. “We found that even with the permissible disclosures [policy], some providers get fearful when they receive a subpoena or they might feel like they have to turn the information over,” said the official, per Politico.
Matthew Cortland, a senior resident fellow at Data for Progress, told Jezebel in a statement: “The Biden Administration updating the HIPAA Privacy Rule to close, as much as possible, the loophole that allows for disclosure of protected reproductive health information is essential in the post-hellscape the rogue U.S. Supreme Court has unleashed upon us. It’s also popular with the electorate.”
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