ABC’s Film of Patient Gives Rise to Confidentiality Claim

Allowing a national television network to film patients during treatment and to broadcast the resulting footage may expose a hospital to liability, a decision out of New York’s highest court demonstrates (Chanko v. Am. Broad. Cos., 2016 BL 100940, N.Y., 44, 3/31/16).

The New York Court of Appeals March 31 said the family of a man who died while being treated at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital stated a claim for breach of physician-patient confidentiality growing out of an incident filmed by the American Broadcasting Cos. (ABC) as part of a documentary series about medical trauma.

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