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HIPA and Genealogy

HIPA and Genealogy

Posted: 8 Dec 2008 9:42PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Gwilliam
How does HIPA (Health Information Privacy Act of 1999) relate to genealogical research? Are records of a person deceased for more than 70 years grandfathered into this act? I have attempted to retrieve hospital records for my great-grandmother who passed in 1937 but have been denied because of privacy. She had been institutionalized
since at least 1910 and died there in 1937. We have no idea why she was there. They said I would need to be the executor of the estate or go to court and be authorized at the administrator. Is there anyone with legalese who might know the answer to this question?

Re: HIPA and Genealogy

Posted: 19 Jun 2012 5:39PM GMT
Classification: Query
Funny you can order records of Military after 70 years without proof from the same people who have made the law. If you have proof you are a relative like birth certificates you should be able to get it. Since HIPA was not in effect and she never signed a form Id fight it.
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