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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, went into effect in 1996, with the aim of protecting the privacy of individually identifiable medical records. In April 2003, a peremptory norm Privacy to protect individually identifiable information has been , entered into force in the field of health for all health plans, healthcare clearing and providers who use electronic health records. The Privacy Rule mandates the adoption of certain rules in the United Statesprotect and prevent the misuse of individually identifiable health information. In this way can result in civil and criminal penalties under federal law. HIPAA is not intended to replace all existing laws that protect individual medical records and that some states have even more stringent laws in place to protect the privacy of patients.

A company is covered by HIPAA authorizes the use of medical information and make it contingent on certain medical informationInformation, if safety precautions to prevent such information for purposes not prohibited under the privacy rule. These guarantees are a physician and the discretion of the medical staff when it comes to medical information and guarantees the structural, such as storing files of the patient in a safe place with restricted access, protection of electronic documents with passwords and firewalls, etc.

Another principle of the Data Protection Act is the rule that ifmedical information for permissible purposes disclosed, the information required, and no more should be revealed. The minimum standard should not apply to information or requests from medical patient information for treatment. It also does not apply if a person wants to access their medical data, or other right of access to these records. Information is also permissible if HIPAA, including information on thoseDepartment of Health and Human Services, where such disclosure is required for the application.