Medical Privacy

Fact Sheets

8. Medical Records Privacy
8a. HIPAA Basics: Medical Privacy in the Electronic Age
8b. Medical Privacy FAQ

Alerts

  • Online Personal Health Records: Are They Healthy for Your Privacy? (April 21, 2009)
  • What Is HealthVault? Things to Think About Before You Participate (October 11, 2007)
  • Pharmacies Profiting At Your Expense: Your Help Is Requested (July 30, 2007)
  • For a Complete Medical History, Compile Your Own Health Records but be Cautious about Storing Them Online (June 18, 2006)
  • Privacy Rights and the Marketing of Confidential Medical Information: Questions and Answers on the Case of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) v. Albertsons (September 9, 2004)
  • Have You Received Unsolicited Marketing Letters or Phone Calls Regarding Your Personal Prescriptions? Tell us! (September 1, 2004)
  • Survey Finds Most Online Pharmacies Do Not Give HIPAA Privacy Notices (July 13, 2004)
  • Compliance vs. Communication: Readability of HIPAA Notices (Hochhauser) (November 1, 2003)
  • Groups Oppose Data Mining of Health Information by Financial Institutions (September 10, 2003)

    • Speeches & Testimony

  • Disclosure Accounting: Comments Submitted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (May 14, 2010)
  • Comments to Department of Health and Human Services re Breach Notification for Unsecured Protected Health Information (November 24, 2009)
  • Comments on HHS Request for Information: Voluntary Storage of Personal Data in Preparation for Emergencies (July 28, 2006)
  • Comments to Federal Agencies Regarding the Use of Personal Medical Data by Financial Institutions (November 1, 2005)
  • Regarding the Privacy Implications of the Proposed National Health Information Network (NHIN) (April 8, 2005)
  • Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Files Lawsuit Charging Albertsons Violates Privacy of Pharmacy Customers (September 9, 2004)
  • Examples of Marketing Materials Received by Albertsons' Pharmacy Customers (September 1, 2004)
  • Study Shows Most Online Pharmacies Lack HIPAA Privacy Notice (July 13, 2004)
  • Comments Regarding the Use of Personal Medical Data by Financial Institutions (May 24, 2004)
  • Albertsons' Pharmacies: Complaint for Violations of CA Business and Professions Code Sections 17200, et seq. (September 1, 2003)
  • PRC Comments on Proposed HHS - Medical Records Privacy Rule (February 16, 2000)
  • Ten Privacy Principals for Health Care (November 6, 1998)
  • Medical Records Privacy: Fears and Expectations of Patients (May 15, 1996)
  • Comments to California Department of Insurance Concerning Privacy of Personal Financial and Medical Record Information  (June 19, 2002)

    • Contributed Articles

  • Study Finds No Privacy Rights at Many Online Pharmacies (Hochhauser) (July 9, 2004)
  • Compliance vs. Communication: Readability of HIPAA Notices (Hochhauser) (November 1, 2003)
  • Health Privacy: The Way We Live Now (Gellman) (August 1, 2002)
  • Why Patients Won't Understand Their HIPAA Privacy Notices (Hochhauser) (April 10, 2003)
  • A Consumer's Complaint Regarding Rite Aid Pharmacy (August 1, 1999)

    • Sample Letters

  • Keep Prescription Information Private
  • Sample Letter to Request Medical Records