As a family physician, one of my priorities is protecting the privacy of my patients. Medical confidentiality is protected under a regulation known as HIPAA. This rule covers the way in which ...

Health care workers walk to the Salt Lake City Public Health Center after administering a COVID-19 test. Public health officials and others who work directly with infected individuals can generally ...

Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Sep., 1986), pp. 117-122 (6 pages) Clinicians' work depends on sincere and complete disclosures from their patients; they honour this candidness by ...

On April 17, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would ...

Introduction Background: Administrative Simplification Application to a Specific Industry or Activity Provisions of the Proposed Regulations Conclusion: 2 Years Is a Very Short Time Application to a ...

OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a bulletin to all California healthcare providers, service plans, and contractors ...

Three organizations involved in patients’ rights issues issued a statement today supporting Rhode Island Hospital’s recent refusal to turn over private medical information about a patient to ...

Providing medical information about a person is a highly sensitive personal matter. Asking for it as part of the hiring process raises difficulties in relation to both Israeli labor and privacy ...

When training to be a psychiatrist, one of the most disturbing situations I faced involved a mother who came to the emergency room for treatment for depression and told me confidentially, in passing, ...

Specific provisions of the confidentiality regulations may come as a surprise. They will likely shock those business partners who are not themselves covered entities, and they may be of interest to ...