{"id":127,"date":"2015-03-10T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2015\/03\/10\/hippa-and-higher-education-student-data-privacy-collide-in-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2015-03-10T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T21:04:00","slug":"hippa-and-higher-education-student-data-privacy-collide-in-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/hippa-and-higher-education-student-data-privacy-collide-in-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"HIPPA and Higher Education Student Data Privacy Collide in Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A student at the Univeristy of Oregon, Go Ducks!, alleges she was raped by 3 basketball players. The University found the sudents at fault and kicked them out of school and off the basketball team.<\/p>\n<p>After the alleged rape, the student\u00a0sought treatment at the student health center. Her treatment included mental health care.<\/p>\n<p>She eventually sued the school as the alleged offenders were never tried for a crime.\u00a0\u00a0During the lawsuit her mental health records, when she sought care at the unveristy health care clinic, were accessed without her permission by the University. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The policy &amp; legal question is does FERPA (Federal Education Privacy) trump HIPPA? The Feds say:\u00a0\u201cThe Department of Education urges higher education institutions to not only comply with FERPA, but also to respect the expectation of confidentiality that all Americans hold when talking to a counselor or therapist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kaiserhealthnews.org\/news\/mental-health-privacy-questions-arise-in-rape-case-at-university-of-oregon\/\">Kaiser Health News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student at the Univeristy of Oregon, Go Ducks!, alleges she was raped by 3 basketball players. The University found the sudents at fault and kicked them out of school and off the basketball team.<\/p>\n<p>After the alleged rape, the student\u00a0sought treatment at the student health center. Her treatment included mental health care.<\/p>\n<p>She eventually sued the school as the alleged offenders were never tried for a crime.\u00a0\u00a0During the lawsuit her mental health records, when she sought care &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-data","category-legal-trend","category-student-data-privacy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}