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Daily Dashboard | Court: HIPAA Trumps Florida Disclosure Law Related reading: OMB to issue government-wide AI risk mitigation directive

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The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled unanimously that a federal law requiring licensed nursing homes to disclose deceased residents’ medical records only to a designated “personal representative” trumps a Florida state law allowing disclosure to individuals including spouses, guardians, surrogates or attorneys who request them. The Miami Herald reports that Judge Susan Black wrote in the court’s decision, “The unadorned text of the state statute authorizes sweeping disclosures, making a deceased resident’s protected health information available to a spouse or other enumerated party upon request, without any need for authorization, for any conceivable reason, and without regard to the authority of the individual making the request to act in a deceased resident’s stead.”
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