http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/coveredentities/decedents.html -----Original Message----- From: Brooks Family via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> To: genealogy-dna <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com>; DNAAdoption <DNAAdoption@yahoogroups.com>; DNA-NEWBIE <DNA-NEWBIE@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tue, Oct 27, 2015 8:23 pm Subject: Re: [DNA] The New 23andMe My hospital's Compliance department has very adamantly informed me that HIPAA does not expire with the patient. And study patients are under a whole different set of rules. On 10/27/15 9:20 PM, Sam Sloan wrote: > The privilege of patient confidentiality disappears once the person dies. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
A person's right to *privacy* does die with them. However that does not mean that every department of government is *required* to release all information they might have on that person. So you have two conflicting things at issue here. -----Original Message----- From: Wjhonson via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> To: Coverly <Coverly@xmission.com>; genealogy-dna <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com>; DNAAdoption <DNAAdoption@yahoogroups.com>; DNA-NEWBIE <DNA-NEWBIE@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wed, Oct 28, 2015 8:12 am Subject: Re: [DNA] The New 23andMe http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/coveredentities/decedents.html -----Original Message----- From: Brooks Family via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> To: genealogy-dna <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com>; DNAAdoption <DNAAdoption@yahoogroups.com>; DNA-NEWBIE <DNA-NEWBIE@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tue, Oct 27, 2015 8:23 pm Subject: Re: [DNA] The New 23andMe My hospital's Compliance department has very adamantly informed me that HIPAA does not expire with the patient. And study patients are under a whole different set of rules. On 10/27/15 9:20 PM, Sam Sloan wrote: > The privilege of patient confidentiality disappears once the person dies. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Hi Please state which government and laws you are referring to, and does this apply to what a company does when operating in a different jurisdiction. Mike