Assessing HIPAA: How Federal Medical Record Privacy Regulations Can be Improved : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session, March 22, 2001, Volume 4 |
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Page 90 - Whatever, in connection with my professional practice, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.
Page 50 - Mr. Chairman, I am Paul Appelbaum, MD, testifying on behalf of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), a medical specialty society, representing more than 40,000 psychiatric physicians nationwide.
Page 52 - ... is included in the covered entity's notice; (ii) The covered entity must include in any fundraising materials it sends to an individual under this paragraph a description of how the individual may opt out of receiving any further fundraising communications. (iii) The covered entity must make reasonable efforts to ensure that individuals who decide to opt out of receiving future fundraising communications are not sent...
Page 23 - The industry supports the following principles: 1. Medical information to be collected from third parties for underwriting life, disability income and long-term care insurance coverages should be collected only with the authorization of the individual. 2. In general, any redisclosure of medical information to third parties should only be made with the authorization of the individual. 3. Any redisclosure of medical information made without the individual's authorization should only be made in limited...
Page 47 - When using or disclosing protected health information or when requesting protected health information from another covered entity, a covered entity must make reasonable efforts to limit protected health information to the minimum necessary to accomplish the intended purpose of the use, disclosure, or request.
Page 103 - MARKETING AND FUNDRAISING The APA is very concerned about a marketing and fundraising loophole that exists in the regulation. A patient's authorization is not needed to make a marketing communication to a patient if: it occurs face-to-face; it concerns products or services of nominal value; and it concerns the health-related products and services of the covered entity or of a third party and meets marketing communication requirements. For example, a marketer could knock on the door of a pregnant...
Page 11 - A covered entity must have in place appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the privacy of protected health information.
Page 48 - I am also, as you noted, professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Page 13 - Chairman, thank you for holding this hearing. I look forward to working with you and the rest of my subcommittee colleagues to address this important issue.
Page 68 - Reviewing the competence or qualifications of health care professionals, evaluating practitioner and provider performance, health plan performance, conducting training programs in which students, trainees, or practitioners in areas of health care learn under supervision to practice or improve their skills as health care providers...