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- Judith A Erlen.
- Center for Research in Chronic Disorders, School of Nursing, and Center for Bioethics and Health Law, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
- Orthop Nurs. 2004 Nov 1; 23 (6): 410-3.
AbstractCongress enacted the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to protect patients' basic rights to privacy and their control over the disclosure of their personal health information. Advances in and the more widespread use of communication technology were increasing the public's concerns over the ease with which their health information could be transmitted, how protected that information was during such transmissions, and their lack of approval for the use of that information by known and unknown third parties. This article, the first of two papers focusing on HIPAA, discusses HIPAA from the clinical perspective and focuses primarily on the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Under what circumstances can a covered entity disclose protected health information? What are the ethical issues inherent in HIPAA? What does HIPAA require of covered entities? What are the implications of HIPAA for professional nurses? The goal of HIPAA is to ensure the protection of confidential health information through having appropriate security systems to guard against unintentional disclosure of that information.
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