The Rule strikes a balance that permits important uses of information, while protecting the privacy of people who seek care and healing. Within HHS, the Office for Civil Rights ("OCR") has responsibility for implementing and enforcing the Privacy Rule with respect to voluntary compliance activities and civil money penalties.Ī major goal of the Privacy Rule is to assure that individuals' health information is properly protected while allowing the flow of health information needed to provide and promote high quality health care and to protect the public's health and well being. 1 The Privacy Rule standards address the use and disclosure of individuals' health information-called "protected health information" by organizations subject to the Privacy Rule - called "covered entities," as well as standards for individuals' privacy rights to understand and control how their health information is used. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") issued the Privacy Rule to implement the requirement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA"). The Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information ("Privacy Rule") establishes, for the first time, a set of national standards for the protection of certain health information.Because it is an overview of the Privacy Rule, it does not address every detail of each provision.
This is a summary of key elements of the Privacy Rule including who is covered, what information is protected, and how protected health information can be used and disclosed.
0 kommentar(er)
