This past summer, Dr. Stacey Tovino wrote three new law review articles. In Going Rogue: Mobile Research Applications and the Right to Privacy, Dr. Tovino examines the privacy implications of mobile application-mediated research conducted by independent scientists, citizen scientists, and patient researchers. In Big Health Data: Velocity, Volume, and Variety, Dr. Tovino assesses whether amendments to state identity theft and breach notification laws could help protect big health data. In Fraud, Abuse, and Opioids, Dr. Tovino explores the use of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and the False

In a recent project, Professor Gakh and colleagues examined how governors across the U.S. exercise their executive power to address public health, specifically through issuing Gubernatorial Executive Orders (GEOs). His research team conducted the study because the use of GEOs as tools of public health law and policy has not been sufficiently explored. The empirical study examined over 300 GEOs, dealing with a range of public health concerns, over a recent seven-year period. 

The research found that, especially in some states, reliance on GEOs in the area of public health policy is

Almost fifteen years have passed since the federal government’s important protections for patient privacy took effect. Yet hospitals, insurers, pharmacies, and doctors’ offices continue to disregard their legal (and ethical) obligations of patient confidentiality, thereby jeopardizing their patients’ interests. Drawing on a number of recent pro bono projects involving violations of patient privacy, Professor Stacey Tovino's recent scholarship analyzes whether patients who are injured really have legally enforceable rights to privacy.

On December 28, 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and

Professor Leslie Griffin's recent work focuses on the place of patients in the world of bioethics. In 2015, she published a new bioethics casebook, Practicing Bioethics Law, with co-author Professor Joan Krause of the University of North Carolina law and medical schools. While she was teaching from that book for the first time, a local man tried to murder her while she was out for an afternoon walk. Since then, some of her writings have explained how patients' needs are too frequently ignored as patients struggle their way through the medical system.
 
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