Cohan v. Ayabe.

Concurring Opinion by

RECKTENWALD, C.J.,

in which NAEAYAMA, J., Joins.

I concur in the result reached by the majority and in much of its analysis, but write separately to address several issues. I agree that article I, section 6 of the Hawai'i Consti*424tution protects personal medical information that is produced in discovery from being disclosed outside of the underlying litigation. As the majority notes, this court has previously addressed this issue in Brende v. Hara, 113 Hawai'i 424, 153 P.3d 1109 (2007) (per curiam), which also specifically dealt with whether medical information produced to…