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

P's state Confidentiality Act claims re disclosure of medical info., based on issues not connected to accuracy nor credit dispute resolution, did not involve the same subject matter as FCRA and were not preempted by it.

Fertility clinic entitled to SJ in invasion of privacy action where it disclosed patient's in vitro fertilization to ex-fiancé on whose credit card it was charged [CC 56.10 (c)(2).]

Dentist's communication with patient/police officer's superiors that he might have prescription drug problem covered by exception to CMIA and absolute immunity of CC 47.

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.