Overview of HIPAA

Importance of Privacy - An Example

    You will have many opportunities to avoid disclosing protected health information. Here is one simple example:

  • Your best friend asks you to look up her mother's laboratory results.

  • Knowing the HIPAA privacy regulation and your own departmental policies and procedures, you do not disclose the protected health information which she is requesting.

  • You politely tell your friend that your are not allowed to give her the laboratory results.

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