1. Confidentiality
Do you want someone to know
your medical information?

2. HIPPA
• HIPAA: Acronym that stands for the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act, a US law designed to
provide privacy standards to protect patients' medical
records and other health information provided to health plans,
doctors, hospitals and other health care providers. Developed
by the Department of Health and Human Services, these new
standards provide patients with access to their medical
records and more control over how their personal health
information is used and disclosed. They represent a uniform,
federal floor of privacy protections for consumers across the
country. State laws providing additional protections to
consumers are not affected by this new rule. HIPAA took
effect on April 14, 2003.
(2012)Definition of HIPPA, MedicineNet.com. Retrieved on May
30, 2013 from
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=31785

3. Confidentiality

4. Confidentiality
• There is
• ZERO
• TOLERANCE
• To anyone looking at a record that
you are not dealing with.
• What does that mean?

5. Confidentiality
• That if you look at someone's
Record that you have no right
To look at.
You could be
Fired from your
Job.

6. Confidentiality
Protect all medical records!
Report anyone that is breaking policy
because YOU could be punished as well