Nobody understands it yet and these are only amendments to the rules and regs of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, thus "HIPPA".

My wife works in an e-room and if someone calls the hospital and asks to speak to Patient "X" they have to look up their records to see if they can even ACKNOWLEDGE that there IS a Patient "X" admitted to the hospital! (Clergy excluded on that point, I believe.)

Like anything else, these amendments are going to have to be sorted out. It is my belief, however, that the patient's records belong to the PATIENT.

TC&GL all.