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Aging service privacy officer warns consumer‑privacy draft would fragment client records
Summary
Bobby Leonard, privacy compliance officer at AgeWell testifying for the Vermont Aging Network Consortium, told the House Commerce & Economic Development committee that draft 2.3 of S.71 would force staff to parse single client records into HIPAA‑exempt and non‑exempt elements, creating confusion, administrative burden, and incentives to 'sanitize' notes.
Bobby Leonard, privacy compliance and privacy officer at AgeWell, testified April 8 on behalf of the Vermont Aging Network Consortium (VANC) and the state’s five Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs), arguing that the version of the consumer privacy bill under consideration would impose a second, conflicting privacy framework on organizations that already operate as HIPAA‑covered entities.
"Clients experience this information as a single record," Leonard said, explaining that AAAs document health, functional needs, caregiver contacts and personal preferences together. He told the committee that, under HIPAA, AAAs consistently apply strong confidentiality and retention practices; draft 2.3 “regulates personal data at the level of individual data elements,…
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