Health Information Privacy

The Office for Civil Rights enforces the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information, and the confidentiality provisions of the Patient Safety Act, which protects identifiable information being used to analyze patient safety events and improve patient safety. 

What Information Is Protected 

• Information your doctors, nurses, and other health care providers put in your medical record
• Conversations your doctor has about your care or treatment with nurses and others
• Information about you in your health insurer
• Billing information about you
• Most other health information about you held by those who must follow this law
• To See More About HIPAA and Privacy Laws See HSS.GOV
• Download HIPAA Information ( HIPAA pdf file )