LUCILLE MOSBY et al., Individually and On Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Appellees, v. THE INGALLS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL et al. (Becton, Dickinson and Company et al., Appellants)., 2023 IL 129081

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HOLDINGS: [1]-The certified question, "whether finger-scan information collected by a health care provider from its employees fell within the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act's exclusion for information collected, used, or stored for health care treatment, payment, or operations under HIPAA, 740 ILCS 14/10 (2018), when the employee's finger-scan information was used for purposes related to health care, treatment, payment, or operations, as those terms were defined by the HIPAA statute and regulations," was answered in the affirmative; the nurse's biometric information, as alleged in the complaints, was collected, used, and stored to access medications and medical supplies for patient health care treatment and was excluded from coverage under the Act because it was information collected, used, or stored for health care treatment, payment, or operations under HIPAA.