Last week I posted that this was Health Information Privacy and Security Week. Seems fitting that I should put a few resources out in observance of the week, doesn’t it? 🙂
- The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has a site, myPHR, to help the public understand their rights over their personal health information, communicate how to preserve the privacy of their health information, and they also provide many tools and resources, many of them free, to help individuals keep track of their health information.
- Interesting news story appeared April 9 in the Delaware Cape Gazette, "Supreme Court’s Lawson ruling a win for privacy in death" The first couple of sentences read, "The Delaware Supreme Court this week ruled that when a natural or accidental death occurs, a family’s right to grieve in private outweighs the public’s right to know what caused the death. The ruling marks the first time that the court has reviewed Delaware’s 2002 health record privacy statute, which ensures that health information gathered by the state will not be improperly disclosed."
- Patient Privacy Rights provides some interesting information about health information privacy
- The American Medical Association (AMA) provides information about health information privacy and HIPAA.
- Privacy Rights Clearinghouse provides a "Medical Records Privacy Fact Sheet"
- The Privacy Commissioner of Canada provides some nice health links
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