What security safeguards are designed to prevent electronic health records from being “hacked?”
The The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule requires specific measures to safeguard your electronic protected health information to ensure its confidentiality, integrity, and security.
A few of the safety measures built in to electronic health record (EHR) systems to protect your medical record may include:
- “Access control” tools like passwords and PIN numbers, to limit access to patient information to authorized individuals, like the patient's doctors or nurses.
- "Encrypting" stored information. That means health information cannot be read or understood except by someone who can “decrypt” it, using a special “key” made available only to authorized individuals.
Health Information Privacy and Security
Ask your doctor or other health care providers for access to your health
information. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule gives you, with few exceptions, the...
Covered entities must protect the privacy of individuals’ health
records. “Covered entities” include most health plans, most health
care providers, and health care clearinghouses...
If you believe that a covered entity or business associate violated your health information privacy rights or committed another violation of the The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
(HIPAA)
Privacy Rule sets rules and limits on who can look at and receive
your protected health information, or information that relates...
The following entities must follow The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations. The law refers to
these as “covered entities”:
Health plans
Most...
More and more people are using personal
health records (PHRs) to manage their health information and become full
partners in the quest for good health. PHRs are different from electronic health...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule gives you, with few exceptions, the right to inspect, review, and receive a copy of your medical records and billing...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
protects:
Information your doctors, nurses, and other health care providers put in
your medical record...
Ask your doctor or other health care providers for access to your health
information. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule gives you, with few exceptions, the...
Covered entities must protect the privacy of individuals’ health
records. “Covered entities” include most health plans, most health
care providers, and health care clearinghouses...
If you believe that a covered entity or business associate violated your health information privacy rights or committed another violation of the The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
(HIPAA)
Privacy Rule sets rules and limits on who can look at and receive
your protected health information, or information that relates...
The following entities must follow The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations. The law refers to
these as “covered entities”:
Health plans
Most...
More and more people are using personal
health records (PHRs) to manage their health information and become full
partners in the quest for good health. PHRs are different from electronic health...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule gives you, with few exceptions, the right to inspect, review, and receive a copy of your medical records and billing...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
protects:
Information your doctors, nurses, and other health care providers put in
your medical record...
