Are patient privacy laws being misused to protect medical centres?  

July 28, 2014

A 1996 law known as HIPAA has been cited to scold a mother taking a picture of her son in a hospital, to keep information away from police investigating a possible rape at a nursing home, and to threaten VA whistleblowers

Charles Ornstein (ProPublica)

This story was co-published with NPR\'s "Shots" blog.

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