Access Anxiety
Hipaa and Historical Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9089173 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan C Lawrence (0000-0002-0229-9291, University of Iowa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 422-460 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5045 • E-ISSN: 1468-4373 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jhmas/jrl048 |
| PMID | 17204486 |
| OpenAlex | W2066014671 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
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.
Business · Health care · Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act · HRHIS · Information privacy · Internet privacy · Misappropriation · Perpetuity · Political science · Privacy law · Privacy policy · Protected health information · Computer Science · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Medical History and Research · Health Policy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |