HIPAA Waiver of Authorization

HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, is a patient privacy act. In order to allow your medical information to be given to someone else, you’ll need to sign a HIPAA waiver of authorization.

The HIPAA waiver of authorization gives the doctors permission to give a person’s medical information to other people, such as other doctors, family members, lawyers, or even researchers. In general, this waiver will be needed to give out “protected health information,” or PHI.

At Shmoop, we sell our wares into schools around the globe, most of whom require HIPAA compliance in our back-end software, and in the way we collect info.