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Reflection on Application to Practice: Volume 28 • Number 8 • August 2016 Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal 11 Lights, Camera … No Unauthorized Disclosure! Taking “Action†to Protect Patient Privacy When the Media Appear By Kimberly C. Metzger In April 2011, Mark Chanko died at New York-Presbyterian hospital (NYP) after being hit by a truck. While Chanko was receiving emergency treatment, a film crew from a major television net- work was onsite at the hospital, with its knowledge and permission, filming the medical documentary series N.Y. Med.

The crew filmed Chanko’s treat- ment, the doctor declaring him dead, and the doc- tor informing the family of his death, all without Chanko’s or the family’s consent—or even their knowledge.1 Sixteen months after Chanko’s death, while watching an episode of N.Y. Med, Chanko’s wife “recognized the scene, heard decedent’s voice asking about her, saw him on a stretcher, heard him moaning, and watched him die.â€2 This was the first time she, and other family members, became aware that his treatment had been recorded. The Civil Case Chanko’s widow and family members brought a civil lawsuit, which is proceeding against the hos- pital and treating physician for breach of doctor/ patient confidentiality.3 However, that is not the limit of the hospital’s troubles.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) also investigated the hospital—a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) covered entity—for alleged violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. On April 21, 2016, OCR announced its

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Reflection on Application to Practice: Volume 28 • Number 8 • August 2016 Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal 11 Lights, Camera … No Unauthorized Disclosure! Taking “Action†to Protect Patient Privacy When the Media Appear By Kimberly C. Metzger In April 2011, Mark Chanko died at New York-Presbyterian hospital (NYP) after being hit by a truck. While Chanko was receiving emergency treatment, a film crew from a major television net- work was onsite at the hospital, with its knowledge and permission, filming the medical documentary series N.Y. Med.

The crew filmed Chanko’s treat- ment, the doctor declaring him dead, and the doc- tor informing the family of his death, all without Chanko’s or the family’s consent—or even their knowledge.1 Sixteen months after Chanko’s death, while watching an episode of N.Y. Med, Chanko’s wife “recognized the scene, heard decedent’s voice asking about her, saw him on a stretcher, heard him moaning, and watched him die.â€2 This was the first time she, and other family members, became aware that his treatment had been recorded. The Civil Case Chanko’s widow and family members brought a civil lawsuit, which is proceeding against the hos- pital and treating physician for breach of doctor/ patient confidentiality.3 However, that is not the limit of the hospital’s troubles.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) also investigated the hospital—a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) covered entity—for alleged violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. On April 21, 2016, OCR announced its $2.2M settlement4 with NYP. The agency’s investigation revealed that the hospital had impermissibly dis- closed two patients’ protected health information (PHI) to the film crew and other media staff, failed to reasonably and appropriately safeguard the patients’ PHI from disclosure during filming, and failed to implement policies, procedures, and practices to protect the privacy of the patients’ PHI during filming, all in violation of the Privacy Rule.

The Corrective Action Plan The hospital agreed to pay a $2.2M resolu- tion amount and enter into a corrective action plan (CAP), to settle the investigation.5 The CAP required the hospital to develop, distribute, and update policies and procedures including: • A specific prohibition on the use or disclosure of PHI to any person or entity planning, coordinat- ing or engaging in photography, video record- ing, or audio recording other than for purposes related to providing medical care without the individual’s prior authorization; • A process for evaluating and approving authorizations requesting the disclosure of PHI by NYP; • Identification of NYP personnel or representa- tives whom workforce members, agents, or busi- ness associates may contact in the event of any inquiry or concern regarding compliance with HIPAA in relation to these activities; • A requirement that all photography, video recording, and audio recording conducted on NYP premises be actively monitored by appro- priate NYP representatives for compliance with the Privacy Rule and NYP’s policies; • Measures that address the following Privacy Rule provisions: Uses and disclosures of PHI;6 safe- guards;7 authorizations;8 training;9 and internal Kimberly C.

Metzger is a partner in the Litigation and Intellectual Property Group at Ice Miller LLP. She focuses her practice on data security and privacy, and drug and device litigation. Ms. Metzger, who may be contacted at kimberly. [email protected] , is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) through the IAPP. 12 Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal Volume 28 • Number 8 • August 2016 reporting procedures mandating that workforce members report policy/procedure violations to the hospital’s Privacy Officer as soon as possible; • Measures providing that upon receiving infor- mation that a member of its workforce may have violated these policies and procedures, NYP shall promptly investigate and address the viola- tion in an appropriate and timely manner; and • Application of appropriate sanctions (which may include re-training or other instructive correc- tive action, depending on the circumstances) against members of NYP’s workforce, including supervisors and managers, who fail to comply with the NYP Policies and Procedures.

The CAP also included workforce training require- ments, a two-year monitoring period, and acceler- ated notice to OCR of HIPAA Rule violations. Commenting on the settlement, OCR Director Jocelyn Samuels emphasized: This case sends an important message that OCR will not permit covered entities to compromise their patients’ privacy by allow- ing news or television crews to fi lm the patients without their authorization. We take seriously all complaints fi led by individuals, and will seek the necessary remedies to ensure that patients’ privacy is fully protected. OCR’s Media FAQ Although most covered entities (CEs) and busi- ness associates (BAs) will not experience a televi- sion drama filming on their premises, news media do come calling.

OCR has published a film and media guide10 to assist HIPAA-covered providers in fulfilling their obligations to patient privacy. As a general rule, CEs and BAs cannot disclose PHI to the media without the individual’s (patient) prior authorization. As the guide makes clear: Health care providers cannot invite or allow media personnel, including fi lm crews, into treatment or other areas of their facilities where patients’ PHI will be accessible in written, electronic, oral, or other visual or audio form, or otherwise make PHI acces- sible to the media, without prior written authorization from each individual who is or will be in the area or whose PHI other- wise will be accessible to the media.

Only in very limited circumstances, as set forth below, does the HIPAA Privacy Rule permit health care providers to disclose protected health information to members of the media without a prior authorization signed by the individual. It is not enough to ask or require media to mask patients’ identities (e.g., pixilation, voice alteration) because the media may not have unauthorized access to patients in the first place. Providers must also take care to institute reasonable safeguards to limit incidental disclosures of PHI.11 Under carefully circumscribed circumstances, a covered entity may disclose limited PHI to the media without the patient’s prior authorization. For example, a healthcare provider may seek media assistance in locating family of an unidentified, incapacitated patient if doing so is in the patient’s best interest.12 The Privacy Rule does not require providers to deny media access to areas of the facil- ity generally accessible to the public.

Providers may engage contract film crews for their own legitimate business purposes, such as producing training videos. However the provider must enter into a business associate agreement with the crew if the provider will be disclosing PHI to allow the crew to perform services on the provider’s behalf, such as interviewing patients. A HIPAA-compliant BAA will obligate the film crew to comply with the Security Rule and many provisions of the Privacy Rule, and thus to appro- priately safeguard the PHI.13 Patient authorization is required if any of the materials containing PHI will be publicly disseminated. Notes 1. Chanko, et al. v.

American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., et al., 2016 WL (N.Y. Ct. App. March 31, 2016). 2.

Id. 3. Plaintiffs brought a lawsuit against the hospital, the treating physician, the television station, and others. The defendants moved to dismiss the complaint, and the New York Supreme Court partially granted the motions, dismissing all causes of action except breach of physician-patient confidentiality against the hos- pital and treating physician, and intentional infliction Volume 28 • Number 8 • August 2016 Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal 13 of emotional distress against the station, the hospital, and the treating physician. The defendants separately appealed the order insofar as the motions to dismiss were denied.

Plaintiffs did not cross-appeal. The state’s Appellate Division modified the Supreme Court’s order by reversing the portions of the order that were appealed, granted the motions in their entirety and dismissed the entire complaint. That court granted plaintiffs leave to appeal. The appellate court modified the Appellate Division’s order, denying the hospital’s and treating physician’s motion to dismiss the breach of confidentiality claim and otherwise affirming. Id.

As to the intentional inflic- tion of emotional distress claim, the court noted that one of the elements of the tort under New York law is “extreme and outrageous conduct.†This requirement is “rigorous, and difficult to satisfy.†Here, the court determined that while broadcasting an individual’s last moments of life without consent “would likely be considered reprehensible by most people†and the court does not condone it, “it was not so extreme and outrageous as to satisfy [the] exceedingly high legal standard.†The aired footage “was edited so that it did not include decedent’s name, his image was blurred, and the episode included less than three minutes devoted to decedent and his circumstances.†As compared with other conduct the state appellate courts concluded was not sufficiently “extreme and outrageous†to satisfy the elements of the tort, the Chanko court determined that the defendants’ conduct in allowing the “brief, edited segment†to be broadcast did not support a cause of action for intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Id. 4. filming-ny-med-results-22-million-settlement-new-york- presbyterian-hospital.html. 5. Under the terms of the Settlement Agreement, the hos- pital did not admit liability, and OCR did not concede that the hospital did not violate the Privacy Rule. 6.

45 CFR 164.502(a). 7. 45 CFR 164.530(c)(1). 8. 45 CFR 164.508(a).

9. 45 CFR 164.530(b)(1). 10. and-media/index.html. 11. An incidental disclosure is secondary to a permitted disclosure, limited in nature, that cannot reasonably be prevented (45 CFR 164.502(a)(1)(iii)).

Reasonable safe- guards to limit incidental disclosures will vary with such things as the entity’s size and the nature of its business. 12. 45 CFR 164.510(b)(1)(ii). 13. 45 CFR 164.504(e)(2). Publishers Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a download, or email articles for individual use.

.2M settlement4 with NYP. The agency’s investigation revealed that the hospital had impermissibly dis- closed two patients’ protected health information (PHI) to the film crew and other media staff, failed to reasonably and appropriately safeguard the patients’ PHI from disclosure during filming, and failed to implement policies, procedures, and practices to protect the privacy of the patients’ PHI during filming, all in violation of the Privacy Rule.

The Corrective Action Plan The hospital agreed to pay a

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Reflection on Application to Practice: Volume 28 • Number 8 • August 2016 Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal 11 Lights, Camera … No Unauthorized Disclosure! Taking “Action†to Protect Patient Privacy When the Media Appear By Kimberly C. Metzger In April 2011, Mark Chanko died at New York-Presbyterian hospital (NYP) after being hit by a truck. While Chanko was receiving emergency treatment, a film crew from a major television net- work was onsite at the hospital, with its knowledge and permission, filming the medical documentary series N.Y. Med.

The crew filmed Chanko’s treat- ment, the doctor declaring him dead, and the doc- tor informing the family of his death, all without Chanko’s or the family’s consent—or even their knowledge.1 Sixteen months after Chanko’s death, while watching an episode of N.Y. Med, Chanko’s wife “recognized the scene, heard decedent’s voice asking about her, saw him on a stretcher, heard him moaning, and watched him die.â€2 This was the first time she, and other family members, became aware that his treatment had been recorded. The Civil Case Chanko’s widow and family members brought a civil lawsuit, which is proceeding against the hos- pital and treating physician for breach of doctor/ patient confidentiality.3 However, that is not the limit of the hospital’s troubles.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) also investigated the hospital—a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) covered entity—for alleged violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. On April 21, 2016, OCR announced its $2.2M settlement4 with NYP. The agency’s investigation revealed that the hospital had impermissibly dis- closed two patients’ protected health information (PHI) to the film crew and other media staff, failed to reasonably and appropriately safeguard the patients’ PHI from disclosure during filming, and failed to implement policies, procedures, and practices to protect the privacy of the patients’ PHI during filming, all in violation of the Privacy Rule.

The Corrective Action Plan The hospital agreed to pay a $2.2M resolu- tion amount and enter into a corrective action plan (CAP), to settle the investigation.5 The CAP required the hospital to develop, distribute, and update policies and procedures including: • A specific prohibition on the use or disclosure of PHI to any person or entity planning, coordinat- ing or engaging in photography, video record- ing, or audio recording other than for purposes related to providing medical care without the individual’s prior authorization; • A process for evaluating and approving authorizations requesting the disclosure of PHI by NYP; • Identification of NYP personnel or representa- tives whom workforce members, agents, or busi- ness associates may contact in the event of any inquiry or concern regarding compliance with HIPAA in relation to these activities; • A requirement that all photography, video recording, and audio recording conducted on NYP premises be actively monitored by appro- priate NYP representatives for compliance with the Privacy Rule and NYP’s policies; • Measures that address the following Privacy Rule provisions: Uses and disclosures of PHI;6 safe- guards;7 authorizations;8 training;9 and internal Kimberly C.

Metzger is a partner in the Litigation and Intellectual Property Group at Ice Miller LLP. She focuses her practice on data security and privacy, and drug and device litigation. Ms. Metzger, who may be contacted at kimberly. [email protected] , is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) through the IAPP. 12 Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal Volume 28 • Number 8 • August 2016 reporting procedures mandating that workforce members report policy/procedure violations to the hospital’s Privacy Officer as soon as possible; • Measures providing that upon receiving infor- mation that a member of its workforce may have violated these policies and procedures, NYP shall promptly investigate and address the viola- tion in an appropriate and timely manner; and • Application of appropriate sanctions (which may include re-training or other instructive correc- tive action, depending on the circumstances) against members of NYP’s workforce, including supervisors and managers, who fail to comply with the NYP Policies and Procedures.

The CAP also included workforce training require- ments, a two-year monitoring period, and acceler- ated notice to OCR of HIPAA Rule violations. Commenting on the settlement, OCR Director Jocelyn Samuels emphasized: This case sends an important message that OCR will not permit covered entities to compromise their patients’ privacy by allow- ing news or television crews to fi lm the patients without their authorization. We take seriously all complaints fi led by individuals, and will seek the necessary remedies to ensure that patients’ privacy is fully protected. OCR’s Media FAQ Although most covered entities (CEs) and busi- ness associates (BAs) will not experience a televi- sion drama filming on their premises, news media do come calling.

OCR has published a film and media guide10 to assist HIPAA-covered providers in fulfilling their obligations to patient privacy. As a general rule, CEs and BAs cannot disclose PHI to the media without the individual’s (patient) prior authorization. As the guide makes clear: Health care providers cannot invite or allow media personnel, including fi lm crews, into treatment or other areas of their facilities where patients’ PHI will be accessible in written, electronic, oral, or other visual or audio form, or otherwise make PHI acces- sible to the media, without prior written authorization from each individual who is or will be in the area or whose PHI other- wise will be accessible to the media.

Only in very limited circumstances, as set forth below, does the HIPAA Privacy Rule permit health care providers to disclose protected health information to members of the media without a prior authorization signed by the individual. It is not enough to ask or require media to mask patients’ identities (e.g., pixilation, voice alteration) because the media may not have unauthorized access to patients in the first place. Providers must also take care to institute reasonable safeguards to limit incidental disclosures of PHI.11 Under carefully circumscribed circumstances, a covered entity may disclose limited PHI to the media without the patient’s prior authorization. For example, a healthcare provider may seek media assistance in locating family of an unidentified, incapacitated patient if doing so is in the patient’s best interest.12 The Privacy Rule does not require providers to deny media access to areas of the facil- ity generally accessible to the public.

Providers may engage contract film crews for their own legitimate business purposes, such as producing training videos. However the provider must enter into a business associate agreement with the crew if the provider will be disclosing PHI to allow the crew to perform services on the provider’s behalf, such as interviewing patients. A HIPAA-compliant BAA will obligate the film crew to comply with the Security Rule and many provisions of the Privacy Rule, and thus to appro- priately safeguard the PHI.13 Patient authorization is required if any of the materials containing PHI will be publicly disseminated. Notes 1. Chanko, et al. v.

American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., et al., 2016 WL (N.Y. Ct. App. March 31, 2016). 2.

Id. 3. Plaintiffs brought a lawsuit against the hospital, the treating physician, the television station, and others. The defendants moved to dismiss the complaint, and the New York Supreme Court partially granted the motions, dismissing all causes of action except breach of physician-patient confidentiality against the hos- pital and treating physician, and intentional infliction Volume 28 • Number 8 • August 2016 Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal 13 of emotional distress against the station, the hospital, and the treating physician. The defendants separately appealed the order insofar as the motions to dismiss were denied.

Plaintiffs did not cross-appeal. The state’s Appellate Division modified the Supreme Court’s order by reversing the portions of the order that were appealed, granted the motions in their entirety and dismissed the entire complaint. That court granted plaintiffs leave to appeal. The appellate court modified the Appellate Division’s order, denying the hospital’s and treating physician’s motion to dismiss the breach of confidentiality claim and otherwise affirming. Id.

As to the intentional inflic- tion of emotional distress claim, the court noted that one of the elements of the tort under New York law is “extreme and outrageous conduct.†This requirement is “rigorous, and difficult to satisfy.†Here, the court determined that while broadcasting an individual’s last moments of life without consent “would likely be considered reprehensible by most people†and the court does not condone it, “it was not so extreme and outrageous as to satisfy [the] exceedingly high legal standard.†The aired footage “was edited so that it did not include decedent’s name, his image was blurred, and the episode included less than three minutes devoted to decedent and his circumstances.†As compared with other conduct the state appellate courts concluded was not sufficiently “extreme and outrageous†to satisfy the elements of the tort, the Chanko court determined that the defendants’ conduct in allowing the “brief, edited segment†to be broadcast did not support a cause of action for intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Id. 4. filming-ny-med-results-22-million-settlement-new-york- presbyterian-hospital.html. 5. Under the terms of the Settlement Agreement, the hos- pital did not admit liability, and OCR did not concede that the hospital did not violate the Privacy Rule. 6.

45 CFR 164.502(a). 7. 45 CFR 164.530(c)(1). 8. 45 CFR 164.508(a).

9. 45 CFR 164.530(b)(1). 10. and-media/index.html. 11. An incidental disclosure is secondary to a permitted disclosure, limited in nature, that cannot reasonably be prevented (45 CFR 164.502(a)(1)(iii)).

Reasonable safe- guards to limit incidental disclosures will vary with such things as the entity’s size and the nature of its business. 12. 45 CFR 164.510(b)(1)(ii). 13. 45 CFR 164.504(e)(2). Publishers Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a download, or email articles for individual use.

.2M resolu- tion amount and enter into a corrective action plan (CAP), to settle the investigation.5 The CAP required the hospital to develop, distribute, and update policies and procedures including: • A specific prohibition on the use or disclosure of PHI to any person or entity planning, coordinat- ing or engaging in photography, video record- ing, or audio recording other than for purposes related to providing medical care without the individual’s prior authorization; • A process for evaluating and approving authorizations requesting the disclosure of PHI by NYP; • Identification of NYP personnel or representa- tives whom workforce members, agents, or busi- ness associates may contact in the event of any inquiry or concern regarding compliance with HIPAA in relation to these activities; • A requirement that all photography, video recording, and audio recording conducted on NYP premises be actively monitored by appro- priate NYP representatives for compliance with the Privacy Rule and NYP’s policies; • Measures that address the following Privacy Rule provisions: Uses and disclosures of PHI;6 safe- guards;7 authorizations;8 training;9 and internal Kimberly C.

Metzger is a partner in the Litigation and Intellectual Property Group at Ice Miller LLP. She focuses her practice on data security and privacy, and drug and device litigation. Ms. Metzger, who may be contacted at kimberly. [email protected] , is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) through the IAPP. 12 Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal Volume 28 • Number 8 • August 2016 reporting procedures mandating that workforce members report policy/procedure violations to the hospital’s Privacy Officer as soon as possible; • Measures providing that upon receiving infor- mation that a member of its workforce may have violated these policies and procedures, NYP shall promptly investigate and address the viola- tion in an appropriate and timely manner; and • Application of appropriate sanctions (which may include re-training or other instructive correc- tive action, depending on the circumstances) against members of NYP’s workforce, including supervisors and managers, who fail to comply with the NYP Policies and Procedures.

The CAP also included workforce training require- ments, a two-year monitoring period, and acceler- ated notice to OCR of HIPAA Rule violations. Commenting on the settlement, OCR Director Jocelyn Samuels emphasized: This case sends an important message that OCR will not permit covered entities to compromise their patients’ privacy by allow- ing news or television crews to fi lm the patients without their authorization. We take seriously all complaints fi led by individuals, and will seek the necessary remedies to ensure that patients’ privacy is fully protected. OCR’s Media FAQ Although most covered entities (CEs) and busi- ness associates (BAs) will not experience a televi- sion drama filming on their premises, news media do come calling.

OCR has published a film and media guide10 to assist HIPAA-covered providers in fulfilling their obligations to patient privacy. As a general rule, CEs and BAs cannot disclose PHI to the media without the individual’s (patient) prior authorization. As the guide makes clear: Health care providers cannot invite or allow media personnel, including fi lm crews, into treatment or other areas of their facilities where patients’ PHI will be accessible in written, electronic, oral, or other visual or audio form, or otherwise make PHI acces- sible to the media, without prior written authorization from each individual who is or will be in the area or whose PHI other- wise will be accessible to the media.

Only in very limited circumstances, as set forth below, does the HIPAA Privacy Rule permit health care providers to disclose protected health information to members of the media without a prior authorization signed by the individual. It is not enough to ask or require media to mask patients’ identities (e.g., pixilation, voice alteration) because the media may not have unauthorized access to patients in the first place. Providers must also take care to institute reasonable safeguards to limit incidental disclosures of PHI.11 Under carefully circumscribed circumstances, a covered entity may disclose limited PHI to the media without the patient’s prior authorization. For example, a healthcare provider may seek media assistance in locating family of an unidentified, incapacitated patient if doing so is in the patient’s best interest.12 The Privacy Rule does not require providers to deny media access to areas of the facil- ity generally accessible to the public.

Providers may engage contract film crews for their own legitimate business purposes, such as producing training videos. However the provider must enter into a business associate agreement with the crew if the provider will be disclosing PHI to allow the crew to perform services on the provider’s behalf, such as interviewing patients. A HIPAA-compliant BAA will obligate the film crew to comply with the Security Rule and many provisions of the Privacy Rule, and thus to appro- priately safeguard the PHI.13 Patient authorization is required if any of the materials containing PHI will be publicly disseminated. Notes 1. Chanko, et al. v.

American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., et al., 2016 WL (N.Y. Ct. App. March 31, 2016). 2.

Id. 3. Plaintiffs brought a lawsuit against the hospital, the treating physician, the television station, and others. The defendants moved to dismiss the complaint, and the New York Supreme Court partially granted the motions, dismissing all causes of action except breach of physician-patient confidentiality against the hos- pital and treating physician, and intentional infliction Volume 28 • Number 8 • August 2016 Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal 13 of emotional distress against the station, the hospital, and the treating physician. The defendants separately appealed the order insofar as the motions to dismiss were denied.

Plaintiffs did not cross-appeal. The state’s Appellate Division modified the Supreme Court’s order by reversing the portions of the order that were appealed, granted the motions in their entirety and dismissed the entire complaint. That court granted plaintiffs leave to appeal. The appellate court modified the Appellate Division’s order, denying the hospital’s and treating physician’s motion to dismiss the breach of confidentiality claim and otherwise affirming. Id.

As to the intentional inflic- tion of emotional distress claim, the court noted that one of the elements of the tort under New York law is “extreme and outrageous conduct.†This requirement is “rigorous, and difficult to satisfy.†Here, the court determined that while broadcasting an individual’s last moments of life without consent “would likely be considered reprehensible by most people†and the court does not condone it, “it was not so extreme and outrageous as to satisfy [the] exceedingly high legal standard.†The aired footage “was edited so that it did not include decedent’s name, his image was blurred, and the episode included less than three minutes devoted to decedent and his circumstances.†As compared with other conduct the state appellate courts concluded was not sufficiently “extreme and outrageous†to satisfy the elements of the tort, the Chanko court determined that the defendants’ conduct in allowing the “brief, edited segment†to be broadcast did not support a cause of action for intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Id. 4. filming-ny-med-results-22-million-settlement-new-york- presbyterian-hospital.html. 5. Under the terms of the Settlement Agreement, the hos- pital did not admit liability, and OCR did not concede that the hospital did not violate the Privacy Rule. 6.

45 CFR 164.502(a). 7. 45 CFR 164.530(c)(1). 8. 45 CFR 164.508(a).

9. 45 CFR 164.530(b)(1). 10. and-media/index.html. 11. An incidental disclosure is secondary to a permitted disclosure, limited in nature, that cannot reasonably be prevented (45 CFR 164.502(a)(1)(iii)).

Reasonable safe- guards to limit incidental disclosures will vary with such things as the entity’s size and the nature of its business. 12. 45 CFR 164.510(b)(1)(ii). 13. 45 CFR 164.504(e)(2). Publishers Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a download, or email articles for individual use.

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A. Bibliographical Information

- Author(s) Name: Kimberly C. Metzger
- Title of Article: Lights, Camera … No Unauthorized Disclosure! Taking “Action” to Protect Patient Privacy When the Media Appear
- Date of Article: August 2016
- Journal Name: Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal

B. Summary of Article

In the article titled "Lights, Camera … No Unauthorized Disclosure! Taking “Action” to Protect Patient Privacy When the Media Appear," Kimberly C. Metzger discusses the legal implications of unauthorized filming within healthcare settings, using the case of Mark Chanko to illuminate the broader issues surrounding patient privacy and media access. Metzger begins by recounting the events of Chanko's death at New York-Presbyterian (NYP) Hospital, where medical staff were filmed without consent for a documentary series, leading to profound emotional distress for his family upon their discovery of the recording. This incident prompted a civil lawsuit against the hospital and associated parties for breaching confidentiality and violating HIPAA regulations. Subsequently, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found NYP Hospital guilty of violating the HIPAA Privacy Rule and imposed a

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Reflection on Application to Practice: Volume 28 • Number 8 • August 2016 Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal 11 Lights, Camera … No Unauthorized Disclosure! Taking “Action†to Protect Patient Privacy When the Media Appear By Kimberly C. Metzger In April 2011, Mark Chanko died at New York-Presbyterian hospital (NYP) after being hit by a truck. While Chanko was receiving emergency treatment, a film crew from a major television net- work was onsite at the hospital, with its knowledge and permission, filming the medical documentary series N.Y. Med.

The crew filmed Chanko’s treat- ment, the doctor declaring him dead, and the doc- tor informing the family of his death, all without Chanko’s or the family’s consent—or even their knowledge.1 Sixteen months after Chanko’s death, while watching an episode of N.Y. Med, Chanko’s wife “recognized the scene, heard decedent’s voice asking about her, saw him on a stretcher, heard him moaning, and watched him die.â€2 This was the first time she, and other family members, became aware that his treatment had been recorded. The Civil Case Chanko’s widow and family members brought a civil lawsuit, which is proceeding against the hos- pital and treating physician for breach of doctor/ patient confidentiality.3 However, that is not the limit of the hospital’s troubles.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) also investigated the hospital—a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) covered entity—for alleged violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. On April 21, 2016, OCR announced its $2.2M settlement4 with NYP. The agency’s investigation revealed that the hospital had impermissibly dis- closed two patients’ protected health information (PHI) to the film crew and other media staff, failed to reasonably and appropriately safeguard the patients’ PHI from disclosure during filming, and failed to implement policies, procedures, and practices to protect the privacy of the patients’ PHI during filming, all in violation of the Privacy Rule.

The Corrective Action Plan The hospital agreed to pay a $2.2M resolu- tion amount and enter into a corrective action plan (CAP), to settle the investigation.5 The CAP required the hospital to develop, distribute, and update policies and procedures including: • A specific prohibition on the use or disclosure of PHI to any person or entity planning, coordinat- ing or engaging in photography, video record- ing, or audio recording other than for purposes related to providing medical care without the individual’s prior authorization; • A process for evaluating and approving authorizations requesting the disclosure of PHI by NYP; • Identification of NYP personnel or representa- tives whom workforce members, agents, or busi- ness associates may contact in the event of any inquiry or concern regarding compliance with HIPAA in relation to these activities; • A requirement that all photography, video recording, and audio recording conducted on NYP premises be actively monitored by appro- priate NYP representatives for compliance with the Privacy Rule and NYP’s policies; • Measures that address the following Privacy Rule provisions: Uses and disclosures of PHI;6 safe- guards;7 authorizations;8 training;9 and internal Kimberly C.

Metzger is a partner in the Litigation and Intellectual Property Group at Ice Miller LLP. She focuses her practice on data security and privacy, and drug and device litigation. Ms. Metzger, who may be contacted at kimberly. [email protected] , is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) through the IAPP. 12 Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal Volume 28 • Number 8 • August 2016 reporting procedures mandating that workforce members report policy/procedure violations to the hospital’s Privacy Officer as soon as possible; • Measures providing that upon receiving infor- mation that a member of its workforce may have violated these policies and procedures, NYP shall promptly investigate and address the viola- tion in an appropriate and timely manner; and • Application of appropriate sanctions (which may include re-training or other instructive correc- tive action, depending on the circumstances) against members of NYP’s workforce, including supervisors and managers, who fail to comply with the NYP Policies and Procedures.

The CAP also included workforce training require- ments, a two-year monitoring period, and acceler- ated notice to OCR of HIPAA Rule violations. Commenting on the settlement, OCR Director Jocelyn Samuels emphasized: This case sends an important message that OCR will not permit covered entities to compromise their patients’ privacy by allow- ing news or television crews to fi lm the patients without their authorization. We take seriously all complaints fi led by individuals, and will seek the necessary remedies to ensure that patients’ privacy is fully protected. OCR’s Media FAQ Although most covered entities (CEs) and busi- ness associates (BAs) will not experience a televi- sion drama filming on their premises, news media do come calling.

OCR has published a film and media guide10 to assist HIPAA-covered providers in fulfilling their obligations to patient privacy. As a general rule, CEs and BAs cannot disclose PHI to the media without the individual’s (patient) prior authorization. As the guide makes clear: Health care providers cannot invite or allow media personnel, including fi lm crews, into treatment or other areas of their facilities where patients’ PHI will be accessible in written, electronic, oral, or other visual or audio form, or otherwise make PHI acces- sible to the media, without prior written authorization from each individual who is or will be in the area or whose PHI other- wise will be accessible to the media.

Only in very limited circumstances, as set forth below, does the HIPAA Privacy Rule permit health care providers to disclose protected health information to members of the media without a prior authorization signed by the individual. It is not enough to ask or require media to mask patients’ identities (e.g., pixilation, voice alteration) because the media may not have unauthorized access to patients in the first place. Providers must also take care to institute reasonable safeguards to limit incidental disclosures of PHI.11 Under carefully circumscribed circumstances, a covered entity may disclose limited PHI to the media without the patient’s prior authorization. For example, a healthcare provider may seek media assistance in locating family of an unidentified, incapacitated patient if doing so is in the patient’s best interest.12 The Privacy Rule does not require providers to deny media access to areas of the facil- ity generally accessible to the public.

Providers may engage contract film crews for their own legitimate business purposes, such as producing training videos. However the provider must enter into a business associate agreement with the crew if the provider will be disclosing PHI to allow the crew to perform services on the provider’s behalf, such as interviewing patients. A HIPAA-compliant BAA will obligate the film crew to comply with the Security Rule and many provisions of the Privacy Rule, and thus to appro- priately safeguard the PHI.13 Patient authorization is required if any of the materials containing PHI will be publicly disseminated. Notes 1. Chanko, et al. v.

American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., et al., 2016 WL (N.Y. Ct. App. March 31, 2016). 2.

Id. 3. Plaintiffs brought a lawsuit against the hospital, the treating physician, the television station, and others. The defendants moved to dismiss the complaint, and the New York Supreme Court partially granted the motions, dismissing all causes of action except breach of physician-patient confidentiality against the hos- pital and treating physician, and intentional infliction Volume 28 • Number 8 • August 2016 Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal 13 of emotional distress against the station, the hospital, and the treating physician. The defendants separately appealed the order insofar as the motions to dismiss were denied.

Plaintiffs did not cross-appeal. The state’s Appellate Division modified the Supreme Court’s order by reversing the portions of the order that were appealed, granted the motions in their entirety and dismissed the entire complaint. That court granted plaintiffs leave to appeal. The appellate court modified the Appellate Division’s order, denying the hospital’s and treating physician’s motion to dismiss the breach of confidentiality claim and otherwise affirming. Id.

As to the intentional inflic- tion of emotional distress claim, the court noted that one of the elements of the tort under New York law is “extreme and outrageous conduct.†This requirement is “rigorous, and difficult to satisfy.†Here, the court determined that while broadcasting an individual’s last moments of life without consent “would likely be considered reprehensible by most people†and the court does not condone it, “it was not so extreme and outrageous as to satisfy [the] exceedingly high legal standard.†The aired footage “was edited so that it did not include decedent’s name, his image was blurred, and the episode included less than three minutes devoted to decedent and his circumstances.†As compared with other conduct the state appellate courts concluded was not sufficiently “extreme and outrageous†to satisfy the elements of the tort, the Chanko court determined that the defendants’ conduct in allowing the “brief, edited segment†to be broadcast did not support a cause of action for intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Id. 4. filming-ny-med-results-22-million-settlement-new-york- presbyterian-hospital.html. 5. Under the terms of the Settlement Agreement, the hos- pital did not admit liability, and OCR did not concede that the hospital did not violate the Privacy Rule. 6.

45 CFR 164.502(a). 7. 45 CFR 164.530(c)(1). 8. 45 CFR 164.508(a).

9. 45 CFR 164.530(b)(1). 10. and-media/index.html. 11. An incidental disclosure is secondary to a permitted disclosure, limited in nature, that cannot reasonably be prevented (45 CFR 164.502(a)(1)(iii)).

Reasonable safe- guards to limit incidental disclosures will vary with such things as the entity’s size and the nature of its business. 12. 45 CFR 164.510(b)(1)(ii). 13. 45 CFR 164.504(e)(2). Publishers Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a download, or email articles for individual use.

.2 million settlement and corrective action plan requiring the institution to implement new measures to ensure patients' privacy during media engagements. Metzger emphasizes that healthcare organizations must be vigilant about safeguarding patients' protected health information (PHI) and adhere strictly to HIPAA guidelines when dealing with media personnel.

C. Evaluation of Article

Metzger's article is a valuable resource for understanding the intersection of healthcare privacy rights and media rights. The case she discusses is particularly relevant, as it highlights the alarming possibility of exploitation of vulnerable patients in a healthcare setting. The article effectively summarizes the legal framework provided by HIPAA and outlines the obligations of medical institutions to maintain patient confidentiality at all costs. Moreover, Metzger offers a well-organized analysis of the subsequent corrective action plan, which addresses critical compliance measures. The focus on OCR's engagement underlines the necessity for healthcare providers to avoid similar pitfalls while re-establishing public trust. The credibility of the article is bolstered by Metzger's professional qualifications as a partner at Ice Miller LLP, where she specializes in data security and privacy, making her insights particularly valuable to those in healthcare law and policy.

D. Reflection on Application to Practice

The case presented in Metzger's article serves as a crucial reminder of the ethical and legal responsibilities healthcare professionals bear concerning patient privacy. For those working in healthcare management or media relations, this article emphasizes the importance of implementing strict authorization protocols before any media involvement in clinical settings. In my future practice as a healthcare professional, I will advocate for robust privacy policies and procedures that prioritize patients' rights. Additionally, this case encourages ongoing staff training regarding HIPAA compliance and the ramifications of breaches, ensuring that all employees fully understand their roles in protecting patients' sensitive information. The key takeaway encourages me to remain conscientious about the ethical dimensions of my interactions with media representatives and to uphold the highest standards of patient confidentiality.

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