Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA)
Protecting a patient’s privacy is very important to Bon Secours and is critical to our ability to provide “Good Help To Those in Need.”
HIPAA is a federal law that required health care organizations to:
- Protect the privacy and security of an individual’s health information. This is done in part by limiting the circumstances in which an individual’s health information may be used or disclosed.
- HIPPA also requires health care organizations to follow the “minimum necessary” standard when using and disclosing health information.
- HIPPA extents the rights that individuals have regarding their own health information.
The HIPPA privacy rules protect information that is considered “protected health information” or “PHI”. PHI includes any piece of information that can be used to discover the individual identity of a specific patient or lead to access to the patient’s medical information equals protected health information.
View the Bon Secours Memorial College of Nursing HIPPA Policy.
