Medical Ethics: Medical Records

A website on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act created in 1996 to protect the privacy of personal health information. The site is maintained by the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

From the website of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The Health Privacy Project will "take on key policy questions, including: the proper role of notice and consent, the right of patients to access their own health records in electronic formats," and more.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center provides this page on the privacy of medical records. News items, national and state privacy information and links to other resources are available.

from the Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health

from Bioethics

from Science in Dispute, Vol. 2