"The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 is a US federal law designed to protect sensitive patient health information from disclosure without consent."

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dekhn 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's not really correct. It was designed for portability- the ability to move data between health care providers.

(I work in healthcare-adjacent and have met with many lawyers and had to explain them all about "HIPAA compliance"; my comment was not made from ignorance, but practical experience based on learning about how the law is used. There is a privacy rule in it, but that was not the real intent of the law. The intent was to make it easy to keep your health care when you moved between jobs.)

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nickff 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Could you please cite the source for that quote? I looked for it, but couldn't find a source; it seems like an AI hallucination.

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nickthegreek 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Why would you call it an hallucination because you cant find immediately locate the source? You didnt say what in the single sentence would make you jump to that conclusion.

I highlighted SirFatty's text, looked up on google and first result show it near verbatim on cdc.gov.

https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/php/resources/health-insurance-port...

	▲	dekhn 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Here's the original text of the bill's purpose; very little of the bill talks about privacy, and most of the rules around that are part of the HHS Privacy Rule. To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve portability and continuity of health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets, to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in health insurance and health care delivery, to promote the use of medical savings accounts, to improve access to long-term care services and coverage, to simplify the administration of health insurance, and for other purposes.