CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Privileges
......Physician-Patient Privilege
.........Medical Records
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Release of medical records pursuant to Confidentiality of Medical Information Act.

Disclosure by physician to third person to assist patient gives third person right to assert privilege on behalf of patient.

Medical center not liable under the CMIA for the release of personal identifying information not coupled with that person's medical history, mental or physical condition, or treatment.

Doctors' disclosures of employee's psychiatric evaluations to employer, and employer's use of such confidential information to terminate him, violated Confid. of Med. Info. Act.

Disclosure of medical records to insurance company not waiver; company may not disclose information about third parties which discloses their identities and nature of ailment.

Medical records of deceased nursing home patient not available to unrelated private persons wanting to investigate cause of death.