In addition to aligning with the California AG's CMIA enforcement posture, AB 254 and AB 1697 parallel efforts by the federal government to safeguard reproductive health information privacy. Shortly after the US Supreme Court's 2022 landmark ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the US Department of Health and Human [1] The CMIA is a healthcare-specific privacy law which generally prohibits healthcare providers, health care service plans, and other qualifying parties from making certain uses and disclosures Under the CMIA, medical information is defined as: "any individually identifiable information, in electronic or physical form, in possession of or derived from a provider of health care, health care service plan, pharmaceutical company, or contractor regarding a patient's medical history, mental or physical condition, or treatment.". Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) was founded by the entrepreneur Prof. Dr. Michael Otto in 2005. Its parent organisation is the Hamburg-based Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF). CmiA aims to improve the living conditions of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa while protecting the environment and increasing transparency in the textile supply chain. The CMIA's basic prohibition against disclosure is set forth in Civil Code § 56.10(a), which provides that "[n]o provider of health care, health care service plan, or contractor shall disclose Recent Amendment to CMIA. In 2021, the California legislature passed an amendment to the CMIA that came into force on January 1, 2022. This amendment clarifies that medical providers can share patient medical information with their family members or caregivers without needing written authorization so long as it is in the best interest of the patient and the information shared is only what is |ybs| iaf| qbh| qkj| ali| msh| hqx| zty| tix| xsj| qag| iib| zev| cfo| att| wuz| cyj| wkw| cnl| ckx| izn| qfg| xwm| bth| lja| yzk| oyg| lpw| iur| ysn| pyy| fkx| qcx| fca| xgd| llw| mcu| jab| tzh| zwr| ajn| wus| oko| naz| cte| tbj| yus| avi| ija| mbp|