Complying with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

Treatment: • We may disclose your health information to a physician or other healthcare provider providing treatment to you. Healthcare Operations: • We may use and/or disclose your health information in connection with our healthcare operations. This includes: o Evaluating student performance o Conduction of student clinical education o Accreditation, certification, licensing or credentialing ...

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Saint Joseph's University (the "University") is providing this Notice to you on behalf of the Health Plan (the "Plan"). The Plan is required by law to maintain the privacy of your health information. The Plan is also required to send you this Notice which explains how the Plan may use information about you and when the Plan can give out or "disclose" that information to others. You also have ri...

The politics of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

T he Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) could be the most significant federal health care reform in a generation. Called “Kassebaum-Kennedy” after its sponsors, former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS) and Sen. EdwardM.Kennedy (D-MA), the act creates the first national standards for the availability and portability of group and individual health insurance coverage, re...

Emerging Technology and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

QUESTIONS PERTAINING TO patient privacy multiply at the same great speed as technologic innovation. Advances in communication technology offer significant opportunities for patients and providers alike while simultaneously posing new risks for security breaches. Evidence is mounting that US health care patients want to use new communication technologies in conjunction with their treatments, par...

Understanding HIPAA: the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.