Actually HIPAA only impacts those who deal directly with medical records.
While I totally support your right to medical privacy and the decision you made to not say what your vaccination status is, that has absolutely nothing to do with HIPAA.
Actually HIPAA only impacts those who deal directly with medical records.
While I totally support your right to medical privacy and the decision you made to not say what your vaccination status is, that has absolutely nothing to do with HIPAA.
I didn't know that. Thank you for clarifying. The store clerk didn't know either and decided not to argue with me about it :D
As a continuance to this.. I would like to propose a question to you, because you obviously know a bit more about this than myself.
Do you know of any laws/legislation(s) which protect someone shopping at the grocery store from being asked/harassed by a store clerk for their private medical information, which could be used as a proper reference so that people like myself are not speaking out of our asses to protect our privacy?
Such information I will share with others as well. I appreciate your time, thank you.
if a company, or individual is compiling a list of people, specifically regarding their "vaccination status" - that is a de facto "medical record"
if a company, or individual is compiling a list of people, specifically regarding their "vaccination status" - that is a de facto "medical record"
lol, that's not how HIPAA works.
regardless - you are under no legal obligation to share your medical information with anyone
I completely agree! But don't tell people to site HIPAA to sound informed, because it makes them sound REALLY uninformed.
I won't do it again lol. I thought HIPAA protects patients medical privacy for/from everyone and not just with medical providers.
This is a farce too, because during a stay in rehab years ago I had a nurse show me on the computer how she was able to access my most private medical information and we both agreed that it was totally messed up!
This was/is the VA medical system, afaik it still works this way, despite many will deny it. I saw it first hand.
Yep, it's bad. At my last company we had a sales person do a live demo of billing records with live hospital data, it was nearly a lawsuit.
I totally support you protecting your privacy! :) It was just a sidebar
yeah, i just say "MEDICAL PRIVACY"