Medtech POV Blog
Mosby v. Ingalls Memorial Hospital (Illinois Supreme Court) April 27, 2023
The case involved expansive Biometric Privacy Act (BIPA) liability for medical device manufacturers. The device at issue was a medstation manufactured by BD that stores patient pharmaceuticals that can be unlocked only by authorized users by scanning their fingers. AdvaMed® took the position that health care workers’ biometric information, used to permit access to medication dispensing stations for patient care, falls under information collected, used, or stored for health care treatment, payment, or operations under HIPAA and is exempt from BIPA’s protections.
Read a copy of the AdvaMed® amicus brief.