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HIPAA Law Protects Against Improper Disclosure of Health Information by Health Care Providers

HIPAA Law Protects Against Improper Disclosure of Health Information by Health Care Providers   In June 2009, a 22-year-old Honolulu mother of three young children was sentenced to a year in prison for illegally accessing another woman's medical records and posting on a MySpace page that she had HIV. HIPAA Law Protects Against Improper Disclosure of Health Information by Health Care Providers HIPAA Law Protects Against Improper Disclosure of Health Information by Health Care Providers HIPAA Law Protects Against Improper Disclosure of Health Information by Health Care Providers HIPAA Law Protects Against Improper Disclosure of Health Information by Health Care Providers The State of Hawaii brought charges against the woman under a state statute criminalizing the unauthorized access to a Computer; and which categorized the conduct of the defendant as a class B felony. According to accounts of the incidents that led to the woman's conviction, there wa...