Case Study: Hilltop Memorial Hospital
Hilltop Memorial Hospital (HMH) is respecting Long’s privacy by keeping the current position of not speaking about Long’s medical history of his mental health disorder. Depending on the state in which this occurs, the state and federal laws of privacy maybe different. In this case, “under HIPAA, the privacy rule adopted by HHS does not supersede or preempt state laws that provide a higher level of protection for the privacy of healthcare information” (Harris, 2014, p. 113). The general rule for the federal privacy rule is to protect patient health information “that identifies an individual or could be used to identify an individual” but disclosure of information is allowed in certain situations.
As board member C argued, the federal privacy
As board member C argued, the federal privacy