Health Information Privacy

The Office for Civil Rights enforces the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information, and the confidentiality provisions of the Patient Safety Act, which protects identifiable information being used to analyze patient safety events and improve patient safety. 

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule			The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Patient Safety Act)
Learn about the Privacy Rule’s protection of the privacy of individually identifiable health information, the rights granted to individuals, OCR’s enforcement activities, and how to file a complaint with OCR.			Learn about the Patient Safety Act's protection of confidential patient safety work product, the permitted disclosures of patient safety work product, OCR's enforcement activities, and how to file a complaint with OCR.