Mexico Medical Student - Hostile HIPAA

Enrico, blogging at Mexico Medical Student, writes about trying to get a report about some minor surgery he had done a few weeks later. Like so many of us, he was confronted with the conflagration so many of us face when trying to do the same.

Adding to my new experiences as a patient, I have now run into heretofore unforeseen side of the HIPAA monster. As a patient, it should be protecting me, right? Of course not! Legislated in part to protect privacy, HIPAA is one of the most misunderstood and abused laws by healthcare personnel, particularly clerical staff at the front lines of the patient-physician records interface who may not have much of a healthcare (or all that much educational) background to boot.

His insight into the enforcement of HIPAA is an excellent read.

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