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Johnson County Community Health Services HIPAA Policy on Privacy
HIPAA stands for The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. HIPAA includes policies on protected health information and sets national standards to protect the privacy of personal health information.
This is the first-ever set of federal privacy standards to protect patients' medical records and other health information provided to health plans, doctors, hospitals and other health care providers. It took effect on April 14, 2003. Developed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), these new standards provide patients with access to their medical records and more control over how their personal health information is used and disclosed. They represent a uniform, federal floor of privacy protections for consumers across the country. State laws providing additional protections to consumers are not affected by this new rule.
Find out more about this Health and Human Services program called HIPAA.