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The HIPAA PARADOX: The Privacy Rule That's Not
Author(s) -
SOBEL RICHARD
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1353/hcr.2007.0062
Subject(s) - confidentiality , audit , internet privacy , health insurance portability and accountability act , medical information , medical ethics , business , law , medicine , family medicine , political science , computer science , accounting
HIPAA is often described as a privacy rule. It is not. In fact, HIPAA is a disclosure regulation, and it has effectively dismantled the longstanding moral and legal tradition of patient confidentiality. By permitting broad and easy dissemination of patients' medical information, with no audit trails for most disclosures, it has undermined both medical ethics and the effectiveness of medical care.