Proposed Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable
Health Information
DHHS SUMMARY: This rule proposes standards to protect
the privacy of individually identifiable health information
maintained or transmitted in connection with certain administrative
and financial transactions. The rules proposed below, which
would apply to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and
certain health care providers, propose standards with respect
to the rights individuals who are the subject of this information
should have, procedures for the exercise of those rights,
and the authorized and required uses and disclosures of this
information.
The use of these standards would improve the efficiency
and effectiveness of public and private health programs and
health care services by providing enhanced protections for
individually identifiable health information. These protections
would begin to address growing public concerns that advances
in electronic technology in the health care industry are resulting,
or may result, in a substantial erosion of the privacy surrounding
individually identifiable health information maintained by
health care providers, health plans and their administrative
contractors. This rule would implement the privacy requirements
of the Administrative Simplification subtitle of the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
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Comment
Period Extension
Technical
Corrections
12/15/99 Federal Register notice
of extension of comment period.
1/5/2000 Federal Register notice
of NPRM technical corrections.
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