Category: Maine Privacy Statute/HIPPA
LET’S KEEP IT PRIVATE
It has been almost eighteen years since the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, late in 2000, issued the HIPAA Privacy Rules to promote the privacy of individuals’ “protected health information.” Shortly thereafter, patients started seeing in their doctors’ offices “Notices of Privacy Practices”—usually in little pamphlet forms, or else just printed on …