I work in healthcare. They can demand my info all they want. I hide and am as vague as possible. It sucks. HIPAA only covers what is legal once they have your medical info, not whether they can ask. For example, they can't call a doc and ask for my records because he is following HIPAA. But if they are given records with permission, now they have to protect them from others askong/hacking, etc. It isn't about really protecting us. It's just a side effect that we get a teensy bit of privacy from a doc not selling the data or putting it on facebook.
I work in healthcare. They can demand my info all they want. I hide and am as vague as possible. It sucks. HIPAA only covers what is legal once they have your medical info, not whether they can ask. For example, they can't call a doc and ask for my records because he is following HIPAA. But if they are given records with permission, now they have to protect them from others askong/hacking, etc. It isn't about really protecting us. It's just a side effect that we get a teensy bit of privacy from a doc not selling the data or putting it on facebook.
It certainly doesn't feel like we have any privacy or rights anymore and it's just getting worse. There are loopholes and lawyers for everything.