If you find yourself in this situation, here is some useful info: HIPAA doesn’t apply to dead people, and a death *caused by* a vaccine would be easy to track and not just cause it would be very publishable in the scientific literature. If they can’t provide any details it’s just cause they’re lying
I didn't know what that about HIPAA. Guess I better not die.
Actually I guess it's in line with how POAs die when a person dies. Whatever it was you wanted before you dies just. Dies.
HIPAA does apply for 50 years after your death. www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-pr...
You are correct. What I should have said was saying a specific person died is not a HIPAA violation and after death HIPAA is significantly different
Sucks the law helps him at this point. If he says a name it's a violation. He can just say "I know people" and they're part of the aggregate
People think that Clinical Trials are the Wild West or something… But let me tell you that the wild west never had to go to a month of meetings and do a root cause investigation b/c of a typo in their documentation. Or b/c they clicked the wrong check box giving someone access to the reports
HIPAA also doesn’t apply if you’re talking about friends who you weren’t giving medical care to.
HIPAA also doesn't apply to "friends I personally know of" even if the speaker is a licensed provider
It is very frustrating when physicians do that! I am in favor of physicians losing their license when they spread untruths that harm people. If they are profiting from the lies they tell, they should be heavily fined in addition to losing their license and board certifications. No consequences!!
*HIPAA does apply in a limited extent after death but saying someone died is not a HIPAA violation
It'd only be covered by HIPAA if he learned about it in his capacity as a health care provider. If he just heard about it or is a friend, it isn't covered.
HIPAA doesn’t apply to someone talking about someone he knows generally anyway. It usually applies to a provider in professional context (yes, that’s simplifying). That said, your faith that he won’t make up something is touching.
When HIPAA went into effect, my fairly large tech employer had a big meeting and said that because our insurance plan was employer-funded, we were legally a provider and therefore nobody in the entire company was allowed to talk about anyone’s medical issues.
They had a consultant in to do to this presentation to everyone. Even the mail room staff. They even excerpted the statute and warned everyone that we could be personally sued for up to $50K for even mentioning Allison is expecting or Dave was complaining about his hemorrhoids.
Oh gosh don't get me hopped up on the *HIPAA doesn't* rants.
The latest story that I heard was someone at a non-health related government office complaining to workers that it was a HIPAA violation that there wasn't more privacy to talk about their criminal record. 🤯 Criminal records are public record!
And it's not a HIPAA violation if you reveal the cause of death of someone you know unless you're their healthcare provider or working for the healthcare provider. This information is often in an obituary published in the newspaper! Family members often tell friends and neighbors. rarely secret!
I just wish these people knew that all their mental health data is being apparently legally bought & sold right down to being attached to their physical address by data brokers who apparently aren't breaking any laws because they're not the ones that caused the data breach that released the records
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I've been in several healthcare data breaches now across multiple health systems in 2 different countries! I got a class action check for $34.49 from the data breach where cancer patients (not me) had their nude medical photos turn up on the dark web! & I don't even remember getting treated at LVHN.
With all the mergers they’ve gone through, it’s possible it was through another doctor that was eventually acquired The LVHN breach was insane
HIPAA is good for keeping some dipshit who works at urgent care from sharing your medical details but it's mostly so that the hospitals don't just straight up sell your medical info directly to shady data brokers, at least they have to make them work for it with a ransomeware attack from overseas.
Aren’t death records public information anyway? Just like birth and marriage etc? People truly have no idea what HIPAA is. Someone tried to tell me it applied to veterinary work as well. Lmfao
No joke. The anti-vaxxers/MAHA crew are going after veterinarians now. My girl here might be autistic, but it wasn’t the vaccines. It runs in her family and I’ve helped guide her through unmasking as an adult.
Excuse me my dog would LOSE HER JOB if her boss found out she’s spayed
My cat is anti-vaccine but I can’t tell anyone she’s actually vaccinated
Are you sure HIPAA isn't just a magic spell I can utter to get out of explaining anything
hipaa certainly doesn’t apply to his social contacts who are not, i hope, his patients
I don’t think he’s seen patients in many years