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HIPAA
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is a US law that outlines privacy standards to protect patients' medical records and other health information that is accessed by health plans, doctors, and hospitals.
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A 30-year old asked:
What are the five rules from hipaa?
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A 43-year old asked:
How does hipaa lead to protecting health information?
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A 37-year old asked:
Does durable power of attorney for health come into coonflict with hipaa?
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A 49-year old asked:
Does hipaa allow facility administration to keep information from aides that work "very closely" with alf residents with c-diff?
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A 19-year old female asked:
Doc left a voice massage with my name and the test and that my results were high, is this in violation of hipaa? What should I do?
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A 17-year old female asked:
Can a doctor share certain information with a permissible party if you have signed a hipaa waiver allowing it, if you ask them not to?
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A 92-year old asked:
Unable to get any health info or nursing care plan on mom due to hipaa. She signed both of us as poa in tx but in this state can be only 1. What to do?
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Geriatrics md: how can nursing home refuse to share care plan with woman's child citing hipaa even before she moves in? Older nonmedical sib has poa.
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I am being harassed in my medical records. ...The secret insurance ones. Is there a way to correct the info? Why is this not covered by hippaa?
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