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In the US, the HIPPA-law protects patients. HIPAA is the acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This law, passed by Congress in 1996, helps to protect individual's rights to health coverage during events such as changing or losing jobs, pregnancy, moving, or divorce. HIPPA is NOT an insurance policy.
HIPPA contains a privacy rule (Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information). This rule gives patients greater access to their own medical records and more control over how their personal health information is used. The rule also addresses the obligations of health care providers and health plans to protect health information.
The privacy provisions of the federal law apply to health information created or maintained by health care providers who engage in certain oral and electronic transactions, health plans, and health care clearinghouses.
In most other countries similar laws are in place to assure appropriate handeling of priviledged health information.
This website was developped in the USA, taking the HIPPA rules into account. The data will be analysied in the jurisdiction following this law. To the best of the knowledge of the authors, none of the equivalent rules from other countries is violated. However it is obvious that not all details of such national laws are known to the authors. In case of a concern please contact the website administrator.
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