The New York Organ Donor Network cannot shield from discovery its records about four patients that a former network official contends may not have been legally dead when their organs were harvested, a state judge ruled.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arlene Bluth decided that the records are not protected against disclosure by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), as the network argued.
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