Get Your HIPAA Privacy Rights: FAQs

These exceptions include, but are not limited to, disclosures for treatment, payment, and healthcare operations; disclosures required by law; disclosures for public health activities; disclosures about victims of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence; and disclosures for law enforcement purposes.

Your health information cannot be used or shared without your written permission unless this law allows it. For example, without your authorization, your provider generally cannot: Give your information to your employer. Use or share your information for marketing or advertising purposes or sell your information.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) lays out three rules for protecting patient health information, namely: The Privacy Rule. The Security Rule. The Breach Notification Rule.

What does the HIPAA Privacy Rule do? It gives patients more control over their health information. It sets boundaries on the use and release of health records. It establishes appropriate safeguards that health care providers and others must achieve to protect the privacy of health information.

It gives patients more control over their health information. It sets boundaries on the use and release of health records. It establishes appropriate safeguards that health care providers and others must achieve to protect the privacy of health information.

These exceptions include, but are not limited to, disclosures for treatment, payment, and healthcare operations; disclosures required by law; disclosures for public health activities; disclosures about victims of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence; and disclosures for law enforcement purposes.

This law, called the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), gives you rights over your health information, including the right to get a copy of your information, make sure it is correct, and know who has seen it.

The Privacy Rule applies to “covered entities,”9 which are individuals or organizations that electronically transmit health information in the course of normal health care practices. Covered entities include health care providers, health plans, and health care clearinghouses.