Reported: Daniel Ribeiro Researcher Requiring Healthcare Providers to Break HIPAA Law
I'm a mental health therapist. I've come across a couple of very concerning studies today. Researcher asks healthcare providers (therapists and psychologists,another one for legal people such as lawyers and judges, and another for doctors and nurses) to provide and discuss case information. Wants actual cases and in some cases asking for real documentation files and images stating to redact the client/patient's personal information. Asks for spreadsheets and documents for proof! Hello HIPAA anyone??
As healthcare providers we are ethically and legally obligated to protect the confidentiality of our clients/patients. We cannot discuss any part of any real case without the client/patient's permission to do so. This requires a signed release. And we certainly cannot upload any portion of any client/patient files to this platform (or any other) whether their personal information is redacted or not. We can lose our licenses to practice.
I highly recommend that Prolific be very careful with stuff like this and address this problem at the earliest convenience. I've reported these studies.