The dismissal of the case against Dr. Eithan Haim in U.S. district court in Houston comes as the Trump administration in its first week has already issued executive orders rolling back transgender rights.
Prosecutors had said that Haim, a 34-year-old surgeon, took the information and shared it with a conservative activist with “intent to cause malicious harm” to Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, one of the nation’s largest pediatric hospitals.
Haim works in the Dallas area but had previously worked at Texas Children’s Hospital as part of his residency. The indictment alleged that Haim asked to reactivate his login there and in 2023 began accessing information on pediatric patients not under his care and then turned it over to a media contact.
Oh you missed the news about congress wanting to insert AI into the medical system, including diagnosis and dispensing medicine.
An AI does not have any sort of doctor-patient confidentiality.
So it won’t just be trans people, it will be anyone who’s health issues make them undesirable in the eyes of the government. For example, people who turn out to be part of a group genetically even if they don’t look like it.
Ah yes… copying United Healthcare is exactly what the official government position should be. It’s not like that has resulted in ANYTHING happening to the guy in charge.
The UHC CEO didn’t have trained government forces to protect him. Trump already has Secret Service protection and you can bet your ass that the first time anyone tries something like Luigi Mangione did, that protection will get far broader (to all of his administration if possible) and far stronger.
Because corporations are super powerful, but they don’t have their own giant military and security forces like the U.S. government does.
False… Any system that access medical data needs to follow the same HIPAA laws regarding information access. Putting that info into a database doesn’t absorb you of the responsibility of protecting that data, neither would giving access to that database to an AI