Article ID: CBB000774467

Access Anxiety: HIPAA and Historical Research (2007)

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) establishes new standards for the protection of private health information in the United States. The Privacy Rule, one of the specific regulatory provisions of the act, went into effect 14 April 2003 for covered health care providers, institutions, and businesses. The Privacy Rule directly affected medical archivists and their collections. It has significant implications for historians of health care, as well. The Privacy Rule is the first major regulation that protects the privacy of the deceased in perpetuity. It establishes requirements that researchers must satisfy in order to gain access to "individually identifiable health information" held by HIPAA-protected institutions. While these requirements will burden historians in some cases, the Privacy Rule could open up opportunities for well-prepared historians to work with a more extensive range of twentieth-century documents.

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Description On the privacy provisions of the US Federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and its affect on historical research.


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Authors & Contributors
Cantor, David
Ebeling, Mary F. E.
Micucci, Federica E.
Matchim, John R.H.
Rands, Gianetta
Gambacorti-Passerini, Maria Benedetta
Concepts
Patients
Health care
Medicine
History of medicine, as a discipline
Medicine and society
Public health
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Places
United States
Labrador (Canada)
Newfoundland (Canada)
Germany
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Institutions
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.)
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