How HIPAA Harms Care, and How to Stop It

In this Viewpoint, Don Berwick reviews common misconceptions about Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements regarding personal health information and proposes steps the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) can take to better balance privacy protections with the need to ensure health information is available for clinical care in reasonable time at reasonable expense.
Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research