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"For example, reporters no longer can get the names and other information about hospital patients, such as victims of a major accident. Under HIPAA, a reporter must ask for a patient by name. The hospital will provide a general statement about the patient's condition, but only if the patient is in its directory, and the patient may opt out. Editorials say this obstructs the public's right to know. And one article claimed: "If HIPAA had been in effect on Sept. 11, hospitals wouldn't have been able to post victims' names." Not true. HIPAA does not prevent hospitals from releasing relevant information about patients to law enforcement and public health officials, and in cases of public emergency. Also, HIPAA doesn't restrict how reporters can use information they get about the patient. It just forces them to go to a source that's closer to the patient....
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though the fines are steep, the risk is minimal. You won't find HIPAA police lurking in hospital halls waiting for a nurse to leak a patient's data. And no one can sue a health-care provider for breaking the law. Health and Human Services will investigate a provider only if it gets a complaint of a major violation."
Asking for a name and a date that happened almost 5 decades ago is NOT a violation of HIPAA.
At a minimum it seems open to interpretation. Clearly your interpretation of the source you refer to disagrees with that of Kapiolani Medical Center spokeswoman, Claire Tong in the source I refer to. Maybe you and Ms. Tong could duke it out in the public eye. In any case Maya and Neil seem to be fronting for Barack and committing him to have been born at Kapiolani, while Barack himself remains mum in public. Under the circumstances it makes one wonder if one possibility is that the issue is not so much where he was born but who if anyone is listed as the father, the father’s nationality, and what race he is declared to have been at birth.