HIPAA – California Globe

Calif AG Bonta Sues HHS, DHS for Handing Over Illegal Immigrants’ Medicaid Info to ICE

July 2, 2025 1:08 pmJuly 2, 2025 1:17 pm

Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Tuesday that California, along with 19 other states, filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) decision to provide access to individual personal health data to the Department of Homeland...

The Hippocratic Oath: Privacy

June 6, 2024 12:28 pm

The sixth and final covenant of the Hippocratic Oath is called Privacy. My oath states: That whatsoever I shall see or hear in regard to the life of my patients I will keep inviolably in confidence even beyond the patient’s death....

Gov. Newsom’s ‘Trace Force’ COVID-19 Army

May 22, 2020 8:33 amMay 22, 2020 2:15 pm

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s COVID-19 tracing army of 20,000 is about to march the streets to break the spread of coronavirus by following the contacts of those with COVID-19. Newsom has said repeatedly that testing is a pre-requisite for re-opening...