The Indiana Supreme Court docket has revived a part of a lawsuit towards Indianapolis-based Neighborhood Well being Community, which alleges that the well being system disclosed a affected person’s medical info to a 3rd celebration, who then posted the data to Fb.
The lawsuit stemmed from an occasion in 2018 when a affected person visited Neighborhood Well being Community’s emergency division and wanted to obtain follow-up info relating to her care.
The worker from the emergency division tried to contact the affected person, however couldn’t, and determined to write down a letter relating to the prognosis and therapy the affected person obtained. Nevertheless, the letter was mailed to the flawed tackle and the one that obtained it posted it to Fb.
The affected person sued the well being system, alleging that it invaded her privateness, that its coaching was negligent and that it was chargeable for its worker’s unauthorized disclosure of her personal well being info.
The lawsuit additionally claimed Neighborhood was chargeable for negligently sustaining the confidentiality of her personal info.
In a earlier trial, the court docket granted Neighborhood abstract judgment on all of the counts.
On Sept. 25, in a court docket doc obtained by Becker’sChief Justice Loretta Rush concluded that the hospital is “not entitled to summary judgment on the patient’s privacy claim because the hospital did not negate the public-disclosure tort’s publicity element.”
Ms. Rush additionally acknowledged that the hospital is “entitled to partial summary judgment on the patient’s negligence claim.”
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Date: 2023-09-27 14:38:54
