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Wow. Impressive work my friend. Thanks for the effort! :thumbs:Protecting your privacy: Understanding confidentiality
The wording is ambiguous a bit here. Are there valid reasons outside of a person's mental health being in question? Then there is this: Protecting patient privacy when the court calls
Still not absolutely clear, but sounds like a court would have trouble getting records from a psychologist.
And to make it more complex, there is this: https://pro.psychcentral.com/what-a-lawyer-wants-therapy-records/
Note that the article does not say what is "consistent with the law", nor are we close to a situation where the courts are involved. Congress can issue subpoenas, so let's more onto the quote dealing with that:
This suggests that congress, which can subpoena but to the best of my knowledge not issue court orders probably would not succeed in trying to subpoena records from Ford's therapist. I think. Maybe.
I have some familiarity with HIPAA in terms of requiring written requests for patient releases of specific data. But I never imagined it was strong enough to possibly ward-off subpoenas. That's pretty damn impressive, too.