Everytime I've seen a doctor in the past couple of weeks I've been handed a copy of this.
Does this really change anything? I've skimmed through it and it basically seems to be about the same sorts of entitlements to break confidentiality that have been in place (I think) for as long as I remember. The right of a doctor to break confidentiality if the patient is thoiught to be putting himself or someone else in danger is an oldie. . .

I did notice that when I went and saw my doctor at the student health center for a follow up after an ER visit for a spine injury, he had not opnly the reports from last Friday and Saturday, but also the one from a month ago when I accidentally OD'ed on Soma. When he mentioned "3 visits" to the ER I was surprised, since the follow up was only supposed to pertain to my back injury last week. Is this a result of HIPPA?

Does it means that every doc I see in my PPO now has access to every file of every other PP service I use? Can anyone give me more possible examples of the effects of this new policy?