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Health Law and Policy

Kentucky Law Journal

2015

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Giving Thanks: The Ethics Of Grateful Patient Fundraising, Stacey A. Tovino Jan 2015

Giving Thanks: The Ethics Of Grateful Patient Fundraising, Stacey A. Tovino

Kentucky Law Journal

Grateful patient fundraising, defined as the solicitation ofphilanthropic donations by health care providers from current and former patients, raisesa number of legal and ethical issues. Elsewhere, I detailed the confidentiality issues raised by the use and disclosure of patient identifiable information by hospital development officers, major gifts officers, institutionally-related foundations, and commercial fundraisers, and proposed corrections to federal health information confidentiality regulations to better balance the competing aims of health care philanthropy and health information confidentiality. In this Article, I analyze several outstandingissues raisedby physician involvement in grateful patient fundraising. That is, physicians who solicit philanthropic donations from their own …


Privacy And Health Information: The United States And The European Union, Leslie Francis Jan 2015

Privacy And Health Information: The United States And The European Union, Leslie Francis

Kentucky Law Journal

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