Medical Privacy - HIPPA rules?

I have wondered about that myself. However, it is my opinion that this HIPPA thing has gone too far. It is a sad product of our sue-happy society.

No one knows why you are there just because they heard your name. Most people don't pay attention enough to remember what they heard, and the rest could care less. Unfortunately, in this world today there is no such thing as total anonymity. The privacy comes in protecting the reasons why you're there, not that you're there. Don't sweat the small stuff.

The privacy is about your health not your name.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1996.

According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) website, Title I of HIPAA protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs.

Title II of HIPAA, the Administrative Simplification (AS) provisions, requires the establishment of national standards for electronic health care transactions and national identifiers for providers, health insurance plans, and employers.

The AS provisions also address the security and privacy of health data. The standards are meant to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the nation's health care system by encouraging the widespread use of electronic data interchange in the US health care system.

HIPPA is more about protecting the privacy about your "written" medical record. It's unrealistic to expect the staff to remember who you are or rely on a number system. That would be unsafe.

That 15-year-previous has a precise to privateness, and for this reason you ought to shop it to your self. you have not any precise to tell her mothers and dads. to not point out that that HIPAA violation ought to value you your job, and you have to be fined hundreds of greenbacks or maybe finally end up in penal complex...