The Hospital does not need his approval to say he wasn’t born there. If there is no record, there is no privacy to protect.
Right.
Absolutely true - plus, to confirm he was born there would certainly not trouble him. He would be relieved for them to “confirm” his birth....if they could.
“The Hospital does not need his approval to say he wasn’t born there.”
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No medical person can divulge information on a patient without the requestor having a “need to know” the personal information. This is part of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules to protect everyone from having access to anyone elses medical records. Even a doctor can’t access a patient’s records without a justifiable “need to know”.
Even if you call to ask they cannot confirm or deny that he was born there. They can only say “we can’t divulge that information without patient concent or a medical need to know.
Bump.
I thought the privacy law handled the rights of a deceased patient who was a patient back in the 1960s---nearly 50 years ago--- like Stanley Ann Dunham, differently than it did with a living former patient, like President Obama.
1. My point is this: As I understand the privacy law, if a reporter walked into Kapiolani hospital and asked if a Stanley Anne Dunham/Obama was a patient on Aug. 4, 1961, the hospital had to legally respond to the reporter with a yes or no.
2. For instance, if I was in the hospital today,and, for some unknown reason, a reporter wanted to find out if I was a patient at the hospital, the reporter could walk into the hospital and ask if a "mirse" was listed on the patient list.
3. As I understand the privacy law, as long as I did not specifically ordered the hosptital to keep my name off of the list or ordered the hospital to not tell anyone I was in the hospital, the hospital had to legally tell the reporter that I was a patient at the hospital.
4. Again, the hospital could not reveal any medical information concerning one Stanley Ann Dunham/Obama, but it is required by law---as I understand it---to say whether or not a Stanley Ann Dunham/Obama was listed as a patient on Aug.4, 1961.
5. Reporters and Lawyers: I bet some good reporters and some good lawyers could put enough pressure on Kapiolani hospital so that Kapiolani would officially have to tell the public if a Stanley Ann Dunham or a Stanley Ann Obama or a Stanley Dunham or a Stanley Obama---the request to the hospital has to specific as to the patient's name--- was or was not ever a patient on Aug.4, 1961, the day Obama claims he was born in Hawaii.
Exactly. They have proof he born brain dead.