Illinois Hospital Narrows Privacy Suit Over Health Info Sharing

Illinois-based Sarah D. Culbertson Memorial Hospital convinced a federal court to partially dismiss a proposed class action accusing it of sharing sensitive health data with tech companies, limiting the plaintiff to negligence claims.

The plaintiff’s Electronic Communications Privacy Act claims failed for a number of reasons, including that she failed to say how her personal health data specifically was disclosed, as opposed to that of a class member more generally, the US District Court for the Central District of Illinois said Wednesday. Those and other federal and state claims were dismissed with leave to amend.

But the court allowed her ...