Today I Learned: HIPAA

Today I Learned: HIPAA

9/17/14

Today I learned the specifics of what all the HIPAA legislation entails. I am very glad we went over this, there are some special rules I did not know before. 

These laws are extremely important. Patients have rights to their information and its privacy. If one's patients don't feel comfortable with their physician they either will change doctors or not disclose the necessary information to their current healthcare professional. 

HIPAA has a lot of different regulations, and all of them are completely necessary. They will be extremely helpful to me in my medical career to allow patients to trust me, as well as to protect myself against fines and jail time. 

My parents are both healthcare professionals, so I have heard the basics of this legislation before. I did not know previously how in depth they protected patients. So much information passed through the healthcare system is extremely sensitive. People make decisions they're not necessarily proud of and don't want people to know. That's their right to keep that information to themselves. This legislation is extremely useful in doing that for them.

Gloria the HIPAA!