Mealey's (December 22, 2017, 10:23 AM EST) -- BALTIMORE — In accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and its implanting regulations, a Maryland federal judge on Dec. 19 issued a disclosure order authorizing health care providers to disclose a decedent’s protected health information in the presence of plaintiff’s counsel in a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit and also issued a qualified protective order authorizing third parties to disclose the decedent’s protected health information pursuant to traditional discovery mechanisms (Gwendolyn Lynch v. SSC Glen Burnie Operating Company, LLC, No. 17-1328, D. Md., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 208948)....