Healthcare Privacy and Confidentiality: The Complete Legal Guide

Healthcare privacy and confidentiality issues have increasingly been the subject of governmental attention and litigation in the past few years. Virtually every state and the federal government has comprehensive laws and regulations governing a patient's rights to privacy, confidentiality of medical records and increased confidentiality protection for communicable/STD and HIV/AIDS, alcohol and drug abuse treatment, mental health and developmental disabilities treatment and peer review activities.
Healthcare Privacy & Confidentiality is a comprehensive guide to the state and federal laws governing the rights of patients and physicians to privacy and confidentiality. Featured in this title: a clear interpretation of privacy and confidentiality regulations; summary of the myriad state and federal laws and court decisions regulating the privacy and confidentiality of healthcare information; describes the rights to privacy of patients in accommodations and treatment as outlined in federal and state requirements; discusses the privacy and confidentiality of medical information, including physician-patient privileges and the confidentiality of medical records; and describes the conditions for disclosing medical research information.