Health Insurance Portability

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, otherwise known as HIPAA, is a public law 104-191. It included provisions that required Health & Human Services, or HHS, to adopt national standards for electronic health care transactions and code sets, unique health identifiers, and security. HHS published a final Privacy Rule in December 2000, which later was modified in August 2002. This rule set national standards for the protection of individually identifiable health information by three types of covered entities; health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers who conduct the standard health care transactions electronically.
Basically what this means is, when you sign that piece of paper that every
Monroeville’s 911 dispatch center covers Monroeville, Pitcairn, and Wilmerding. The complaint also said generic user names and passwords were created to access a database of 911 callers’ medical information, giving anyone that information the ability to anonymously access personal medical records. Could you imagine? You call 911 in hopes of getting help and they transfer you over to a “medical hospital” to explain your injuries or needs, where they take your medical records and email them to whomever. To me, that is a big violation of HIPAA. We should not have to worry about our police officers, none the less, spreading our private medical information like wildfire.
You have a right to protect your medical information. Everyone is aware and you can fight those who choose not to comply. If you are transferred over to a “hospital” when you call 911, please do not give out your information, you may end up being a victim of HIPAA violations. If someone videotapes you in a medical emergency, have them arrested. Protect yourself from