HIPAA, the health privacy law that’s more limited than you think, explained
https://www.vox.com/recode/22363011/hipaa-not-hippa-explained-health-privacy
You probably don’t know what HIPAA really means. Let’s fix that.
The first thing you should know about HIPAA is that it’s HIPAA, not HIPPA. There is only one P, and that P doesn’t stand for “privacy.”