Stacey Tovino - Protecting Patients

Professor Stacey Tovino continues her research in a wide variety of civil and regulatory health law areas. In her new article A Right to Care forthcoming in Alabama Law Review, Prof. Tovino reports the results of a fifty-state benchmark plan survey examining non-Medicare insurance coverage of skilled care and cognitive rehabilitation. Iowa Law Review will publish a second new article, A Timely Right to Privacy, cataloguing and assessing patient privacy, security, and breach notification enforcement actions.

A third article forthcoming in Academic Medicine, Ethical Issues and Recommendations in Grateful Patient Fundraising and Philanthropy, discusses ethical issues raised by grateful patient fundraising and offers guidelines for development officers, health care providers, and other individuals who participate in health care philanthropy. Annals of Health Law will publish a fourth article, Patient Privacy: Problems, Perspectives, and Opportunities, this summer. Laws, a peer-reviewed legal systems journal, recently published a fifth piece, Disparities in Private Health Insurance Coverage of Skilled Care. Finally, Prof. Tovino re-wrote a judicial opinion, Lisa M. v. Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, that will soon appear in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tort Opinions (eds. Martha Chamallas & Lucinda Findley).

This summer, Prof. Tovino will shift her focus to two new projects. The first project will examine state regulation of citizen scientists, independent researchers, and patient researchers. The second project will catalogue and assess criminal convictions for violations of federal privacy and security regulations. Next year, Prof. Tovino will write invited symposia pieces for the Journal of Tort Law, Kansas Law Review, and Nova Law Review, as well as a chapter on health care in the Cambridge Handbook on Compliance (eds. D. Daniel Sokol and Benjamin van Rooij).