Access and Privacy on the Front Lines of Policing and Health Care:  Hospital-Police Cooperation

The Hippocratic Oath requires medical professionals to keep secret, and never reveal, any information that may come to their knowledge in the exercise of their profession, outside of their profession, or in daily commerce. The privacy of medical information is further protected by privacy law — or is it?

This engaging discussion will explore the conflict that exists throughout North America from the intersection of patients’ privacy rights and the needs of law enforcement for access to patients’ personal records.