Kirk Nahra Publishes on the Pandemic and Healthcare Privacy

Kirk Nahra Publishes on the Pandemic and Healthcare Privacy

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In this article published by the International Association of Privacy Professionals, Kirk Nahra discusses healthcare privacy concerns stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Excerpt: When I teach privacy law, I try to make the issues real for the students. It often isn’t that hard—privacy issues remain in the news almost every day. The evolution of the pandemic has made more of these issues real and is leading to a series of critical questions for the future of health care privacy. These issues are not new, but the focus of the attention on pandemic issues has made the need for discussion and resolution of these issues even more critical.

We are seeing four distinct categories of issues arising from the pandemic.

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