Becker's Healthcare August 21, 2018
Former President Bill Clinton signed HIPAA into law 22 years ago on Aug. 21, 1996.
The law was designed to afford patients’ a right to access their own health data, as well as establish various safeguards to ensure organizations that handle sensitive information protect patients’ privacy. However, the right-wing nonprofit Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom argues HIPAA does the opposite.
Here are 22 ways the organization claims HIPAA hurts patients:
1. HIPAA allows for physicians and hospitals to share health records, tests, diagnoses and physician notes between one another without patients’ knowledge, which the group argues makes it “nearly impossible to get a truly unbiased second opinion.”
2. HIPAA permits scientists and researchers to use patients’ medical and genetic information...
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