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HIPAA – Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

HIPAA – is an important legislative Act affecting the U.S. healthcare industry. The purpose of HIPAA in healthcare is:

01. . To protect the privacy of patients

02. To ensure health information is kept secure

03. To notify patients if breaches of their health data

GDPR – The General Data Protection Regulation:

GDPR – The General Data Protection Regulation is the EU’s digital privacy legislation and defines how personal data is processed in the Healthcare sector as “sensitive data” for all digital services including web, mobile, and other online platforms. It affects how organizations store, collect, transmit the data of patients, thus giving them control of their personal data.

PIPEDA – The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act

PIPEDA is the primary federal law related to privacy legislation for the private sector in Canada.  It focuses on how healthcare or any private sector organization would collect, use, and reveal patient information in the course of commercial business. You should assure the patients that their data won’t be disclosed anywhere without their permission.

PDP – The Personal Data Protection Bill

The PDP Bill is a substantive framework that introduces a specialized regulatory approach for the Protection and Privacy of Data in India. It places a framework around how the personal data of patients can be collected, used, and in which scenarios it must be deleted. The PDP Bill gives every patient more control over his/her personal data that is being collected, as well as how this information is used.