Running head: HIPPA IS BEING VIOLATED ON A DAILY BASIS
HIPPA is Being Violated on a Daily Basis
Axia College
Effective Persuasive Writing
Com 120
Carolyn Parker
Jul 23, 2006
HIPPA is Being Violated on a Daily Basis
On June 14, 2006 I went to the doctor’s office to pick up a friend and while I was sitting in the waiting area a woman came in and went to the front desk to check in. After a few minutes she was called to the back and when the ladies behind the desk seen that she was no longer in the waiting area they began to discuss her personal business. Need-less to say by the time I was ready to leave I knew the ladies name, what type of insurance she had that she owed them some money, what she was being seen for and I also knew just by how they discussed her that she was a regular there and not very liked. The whole time that I was there no-one bothered to close the privacy window and they discussed this patient’s information openly not caring if someone over heard them or not, which brings me to my point. HIPPA is being violated on a daily basis. One may be asking what is HIPPA and how does it work?
HIPPA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HIPPA was signed into law by President Clinton on August 21, 1996 and went into effect on April 14, 2001. Prior to HIPPA there was no uniformity; rules and regulations varied from state to state and even from one healthcare organization to another. HIPPA requires that medical providers take steps to keep our health information private. It also requires that you are informed how the information that is gathered, how it is used and what some of the limits are as to what can be done with this information.
We will be discussing ways in which HIPPA is being violated and how you can take steps to ensure that your rights are not being violated and that your not violating someone else’s rights. More often then you can imagine Private Health Information...