Becker's Healthcare July 23, 2021
Even before the advent of social media and the ease of the rapid spread of health misinformation, the HIPAA privacy law has often been the subject of misinterpretation, The New York Times reported July 23.
“I often joke that even though it is five letters, HIPAA is treated as a four-letter word,” I. Glenn Cohen, a bioethics and health law expert at Harvard University, told the Times. He said that physicians, too, have often used it as a reason not “to do something they don’t want to do, like providing a patient certain information by saying — perhaps believing it but being incorrect — ‘well, that would be a HIPAA violation.'”
Then-President Bill Clinton signed HIPAA into law in...
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