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• What Federal laws are relevant to health privacy?
• ABOUT HIPAA
• What is HIPAA?
• Who is a patient?
• Children and privacy?
• Privacy after death?
• What is a health record?
• Who must comply with HIPAA?
• Fair information practices
• Protects privacy?
• Solving HIPAA problems
• 7 BASIC PATIENT RIGHTS
• Right to notice of privacy practices
• What is a HIPAA notice?
• Why are the notices so long?
• Should I read notices?
• What are the forms the doctors ask me to sign?
• Most important parts?
• Right to inspect and copy your record
• Why inspect and copy your record?
• Resons to see your record?
• Which records can I get?
• How much will it cost?
• How to make a request for records?
• What records to ask for?
• Can records be withheld?
• Right to request confidential treatment
• Right to request confidential treatment?
• How to exercise right?
• Apply to health plans?
• Other requirements?
• Right to request amendment
• How to request an amendment?
• How to remove incorrect information from file?
• Limits on amendments?
• State laws?
• Making amendments
• Can I appeal?
• What if amendment denied?
• Disclosing disputed info?
• Right to receive an accounting of disclosures
• What is an accounting of disclosures?
• Why care about disclosure history?
• How to request an accounting
• Who makes?
• Cost?
• Limitations?
• Loopholes?
• More rights under State Law?
• Best strategy for making a request?
• Right to complain to Secretary of HHS
• File a Federal complaint?
• What belongs in a complaint?
• Will it help?
• What to do if I see a privacy violation?
• Retaliation?
• Another way to protest?
• Right to request restrictions of uses and disclosures
• Right to request restrictions
• Why is this right nearly meaningless?
• Restrictions on disclosure to relatives, friends?
• USES & DISCLOSURES
• HIPAA restrictions on use/disclosure of med. records?
• Consent needed?
• Which disclosures are okay?
• Do I have a say?
• Disclosures without approval?
• Disclosures required by law?
• Allowable uses and disclosures
• What to do if asked to sign an authorization?
• Elder care?
• How to revoke an authorization
• Can my records be used for marketing?
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