Paid a visit to my primary care doc yesterday. Check-in included a form to sign indicating that a “privacy rights” disclosure was available, should I want to take a look at it. I asked for it and read it.
Bottom line, as flowered up as they tried to make it sound, HIPAA no longer exists. There is no such thing as medical privacy anymore.
Between the information the doctor’s office can release “without your permission” and the leaky-as-a-sieve Obamacare system...we’re going to be flayed alive.
That’s really interesting.
One of the things I disliked about visiting Drs was having to fill out the HIPPA form when everybody knew there were several already on file.
That raises the question...... is the info gathered prior to Tuesday secure and that gathered since not? It would seem that gathered prior must be maintained securely because there can not be a law retroactively changing the rules under which it was collected.