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Co-authored by Nancy E. Halpern, DVM, Esq. and Elizabeth G. Litten.  Also posted on Animal Law Update.

As reported in expressnews.com:

Joseph Larsen, a Houston­-based open records lawyer, said if Texas A&M owns the animals, the chapter cited in the attorney general’s opinion that grants veterinarian-­client confidentiality should not apply because the

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Co-authored by Nancy Halpern, DVM, Esq.; also posted on Animal Law Update

HIPAA does not protect animals’ health information – it applies to the protected health information (or PHI) of an “individual”, defined as “the person who is the subject of” the PHI. However, state laws governing the confidentiality of health information also come…