Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's not a dumb question. I'm almost certain that HIPAA protects the privacy of the deceased. As far as taking photos of hospice patients (or "clients"!) goes, HIPAA does not prohibit healthcare workers (which would include hospice volunteers while functioning in that capacity) from taking and publishing their photographs, only doing so without permission. Regarding Sue's mention of her sister being one of my nurses: this is one of the more amazing coincidences I've had happen to me. The LUG has, what, at most a few hundred members who post in any given year, out of a worldwide population of 6 billion? And these are distributed across at least four continents circling the globe. Sue posts a photo taken a few miles from where I live, establishing that two of us live within the same metro area of less than a million people, already an improbable coincidence. We correspond and find that, first, we're both in the healthcare field, then that we work in the same hospital and adjacent office sites, and then that her sister Cheri and my nurse Cheri are one and the same person... Flat out amazing. --howard On Mar 15, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Ernest B. Ferro wrote: > I'm not an attorney and excuse me if this is a dumb question. Does > still HIPAA apply to a person who has passed away? > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information