#65 Should have kept your ignorant mouth shut, bj boi ...

1. HIPAA Privacy Rule exceptions (specifically related to permitted uses and disclosures of PHI)

The HIPAA Privacy Rule permits covered entities to use and/or disclose personal health information (PHI) without patient authorization for treatment, payment, and healthcare operations (TPO). Aside from TPO, the rule only permits uses and disclosures under very specific circumstances.

Below is a quick rundown of these exceptions, which are described in more detail in 45 CFR 164.512.

Required by law
Public health activities (such as reporting to a state health department or the CDC)
Victims of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence
Health oversight activities, such as audits
Legal proceedings
Law enforcement purposes
Medical research
Workers compensation
Essential government functions (such as protecting the health and safety of inmates or employees in a correctional institution)
Psychotherapy notes in limited circumstances (such as its own training or to defend itself in legal proceedings brought by the individual)
Marketing in limited circumstances (such as communications for care coordination for the individual or to recommend alternative treatments)
To inform next of kin, identify a body, determine cause of death, or for a medical examiner/coroner
To facilitate organ donation or transplants
To prevent serious threat to a person or the public's health or safety

Should have just kept your ignorant mouth shut (or used for more productive purposes).

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AI Overview
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) protects individually identifiable health information"known as Protected Health Information (PHI)"held by "covered entities" (healthcare providers, plans, and clearinghouses) and their business associates. It ensures privacy and security for medical records and billing, but does not cover non-health companies, employment records, or consumer-tracked data.

You're welcome.

#62 bj boi actually says, "Practically everything with patients is confidential."

Oh, everything with patients isn't confidential ? ? ?

Say it ain't so, bj boi?

#62 Practice, not law.

#60 Yep.

I'm sure.

It pertains when there's billing.

Otherwise? No expectation for privacy.

#57 doveryay, no proveryay

#54 HIPAA only pertains to billing information, not medical records.

That's not optional.

"... dipsomaniac Pete Hegseth bleated that the right to bear arms is "endowed by Almighty God."

Clearly, dipsomaniac Pete Hegseth is channeling his inner Major DEI Boaz.

Good call, C0RI0LANUS...

... and thank you.

#6 Until the Trump develops a sense of shame, your impotent response is just that: impotent.

Clown says, "What I see from you now though is objection to discussing the weaknesses and failures of the Democratic Party."

And just how many of these posters have openly, here, discussed the weaknesses and failures of the Republican Party:

shrimptacodan
fortfisher
oneironaut
scotts
robson
sheepleschism
visitor_
bellringer
lfthndthrds
thebull
john_savage2
fishpaw
humtake
billjohnson

c0ri0lanus
speaksoftly
ClownShack

Clown says, "What I see from you now though is objection to discussing the weaknesses and failures of the Democratic Party."

Ya think, Clown?

Yeah. Funny thing about the political status of the USA in late April, 2026:

The only reason to "discuss" the weaknesses and failures of the Democratic Party, at this time, is to weaken the Democratic Party.

And who benefits from a weakened Democratic Party?

The Republicans (see: zero-sum game).

And who loses from a weakened Democratic Party?

I'd argue, it is the American people who lose from a weakened Democratic Party.

But, apparently, to you (and others here), tearing down the Democratic Party is a fun game. You seem to salivate over the idea of damaging the only counter to the Republican Party.

Meanwhile, those on the right side of the aisle cheer you (and the others here) on, beside themselves over the stroke of good luck you're giving them by doing some of the heavy lifting (damning the Democratic Party) while they expend zero energy doing so.

And, as an added bonus, your posts become self-fulfilling prophecy for Democrats and made-for-television ads for Republicans.

#34 Translation: Caius Marcius Coriolanus believes that Joe Biden should have lost in 2020

#17 Caius Marcius Coriolanus again states, "And the DNC ... still refuse to release the official autopsy report of why incumbent VPOTUS Kamala Harris and successful Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) lost 6,265,888 supporters that voted Democratic on Tuesday 3 Nov 2020, but not on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024, costing the DNC the White House."

And, again, I am pleased to offer my in-depth take on that question, with activities down to the county/precinct level, to demonstrate why the Harris/Walz team lost in November, 2024:

#18 Not possible.

Bernie Sanders isn't a Democrat.

Can't get screwed by a party that isn't yours...

...unless you allow them to do that.

And afterwards, wouldn't the person who was "screwed" disavow the party that wasn't even theirs, and then spend the rest of their time damning said party?

If I remember correctly, Senator Sanders is still caucusing with the Democrats.

#16 Then you're not reading my posts.

I have often been disappointed that my preferred candidate didn't make it to the general election following the primary.

But, when November rolls around then, yes, the Democratic candidate is my choice.

Once again, come November, if it is Steyer versus Hilton, who are you going to vote for?

#13 Yeah?

So, work hard and campaign for and donate to Becerra.

But, come November, if it is Steyer versus Hilton, who are you going to vote for?

#11 That's the most ridiculous comment I've read today, Clown.

Just how does the DNC shoot down candidates?

Didn't shoot down any of these recent Democratic success stories:

-> Georgia voters ousted two Republican members of the state's Public Service Commission in favor of two Democrats - the first Democrats to win statewide nonfederal offices in decades.

-> Democrats in Mississippi Break the G.O.P.'s State House Supermajority

-> Every single county in Virginia - even deeply red counties - saw shifts TOWARDS the Democrats, as opposed to how they voted 1 year ago.

-> Dems flip Wichita School Board from a 4-3 GOP majority to a 5-2 Democratic majority. Democratic candidates Amy Warren and Amy Jensen defeated Republican incumbents Hazel Stabler and Kathy Bond.

-> Two of Tuesday's school board elections were in Bucks County, Pa., which was considered "ground zero" for right-wing groups' takeover of school boards in 2021. A few years ago, conservatives on these boards in Pennbridge and Central Bucks districts were using their roles to pass policies targeting LGBTQ+ students and banning books.

---> Democrats flipped control of both boards in 2023, and on Tuesday, they ousted every Republican from both of these boards, except for one. The Pennbridge school board is now 8-1, with Democratic members in control. The Central Bucks school board is 9-0.

-> In Texas, we even won in Lockhart, which sits in a district so red that Democrats normally don't even run. We had a clean sweep in Cy-Fair ISD, another deeply red area that not even Greg Abbott could save your party.

-> In SD-9, another red district, we saw an 8 point shift for the Democrat

-> Eileen Higgins elected as first Democratic mayor of Miami in three decades

As for me, the opposition isn't the DNC (or the Democratic Party, or any Democratic candidate that's brave enough to throw their hat into the ring).

The opposition is the RNC, the Republican Party, and every candidate with an (R) after their name.

Eye on the prize, Clown.

Eye on the prize.

#8 Clown says, "America deserves more than the 2 party system of the Oligarch Party vs the Corporate Elite Party."

And just where is America supposed to find that "thing" that they do deserve?

#7 You say Dem "leadership" won't do anything that inconveniences Wall St.

I suppose you mean then that America should keep electing Republicans because they will inconvenience Wall St.?

Is that what you're saying, Morris?

#6 Dumbest and most clueless.

Such a combination, eh, Clown? :-)

#3 Those are not starting points.

Those are straw arguments with no basis in fact.

You're welcome.