Blackman consulted a staff attorney about the Webcam incident, she said. Dr. Deborah Peel of the Patient Privacy Rights Foundation said as long as a patient isn’t recording other patients, she doesn’t see violations of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, which protects patient privacy. “Many people are very concerned that the quality of care in hospitals has decreased so much. I could understand the family wanting a Webcam to prove what care their family did or didn’t nannycam get,” she said.Dr. Kenneth Peelle, president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, said hospitals have adopted their own policies as the technology emerges.
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