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Fact Sheet 8Medical Records Privacy

HIPAA Basics: Medical Privacy in the Electronic Age

Fact Sheet 8aHIPAA Basics:
Medical Privacy in the Electronic Age

Today you have more reason than ever to care about the privacy of your medical information. Intimate details you revealed in confidence to your doctor were once stored in locked file cabinets and on dusty shelves in the medical records department.

Now, sensitive information about your physical and mental health will almost certainly end up in data files. Your records may be seen by hundreds of strangers who work in health care, the insurance industry, and a host of businesses associated with medical organizations. What's worse, your private medical information is now a valuable commodity for marketers who want to sell you something.

Medical Privacy FAQ

Fact Sheet 8bMedical Privacy FAQ

Keep Prescription Information Private

Sample letter to a pharmacy requesting medical information be kept private and not sold to marketers or pharmaceutical companies.

Date

Your Name
Mailing Address
City, State, Zip

Sample Letter to Request Medical Records

Sample letter: request medical records as allowed by HIPAA.

[Your name]
[Your address]
[Date]

Comments to the Department of Health and Human Services: HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures Under the HITECH Act

Next Generation 911 Comments to the California Technology Agency Public Safety Communications Office

Comments to the FCC: Framework for Next Generation 911 Deployment

Comments to California Dept. of Public Health: Medical Information Breach Regulations

Consumers enter a hospital or another care facility in California should not have to worry that their health and financial data might end up on a social networking website, in the tabloids, in a dumpster, or in the hands of an identity thief. Yet, instances of the breach of healthcare data in California continue at an alarming pace.

Caremark Reportedly Shares Confidential Prescription Information to Steer Business to CVS Pharmacies

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) has persistently challenged the health care industry’s improper use and disclosure of confidential medical information, which in many instances is used to market new or additional medication to patients. PRC has become aware that Caremark, a CVS owned company and one of the country’s largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), is improperly sharing prescription information with CVS to steer pharmacy patients to CVS pharmacies.

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