- How did the Meier court
balance the plaintiffs’ right to access potentially relevant evidence
during discovery with the non-parties’ physician-patient privilege? What
did you discover about how entities should handle unauthorized or
inadvertent disclosure of protected health information (PHI) from the Meier case? What principle regarding the limits of privilege does this case stand for?
- What rules of law regarding physician-patient privilege do the other cases, State of Mississippi v. Baptist Memorial Hospital, Golden Triangle andState v. Weilert, stand
for? How does the court balance the rights of the public with the
individual’s right to privacy and confidentiality of his or her health
information, as defined by HIPAA?
- Why do you think the courts in Baptist and Weilert gave public policy concerns so much weight, while the Meier court seemed to give physician-patient privilege greater weight in their respective analyses?
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