How is the HLC Privacy Law Database organized?
The HLC Privacy Law Database is organized by state (or territory). Within each state, summaries of laws and regulations are broken out by types of entities, e.g., physicians, hospitals, insurers, etc. For a complete list of the entities covered by the study, click here. Within each entity, are groupings of laws and regulations by topics, e.g., duty of confidentiality, access and inspection of records, public health oversight, etc. For a listing of topics, click here. Accordingly, the Privacy Study consists of a series of individual records. Each record summarizes the law of a state for a certain provider[s] on a certain topic[s], e.g., the duty of confidentiality requirements for hospitals in Pennsylvania. Each record summarizes an issue or set of requirements within a law or regulation. A state may have multiple provisions of law or regulation on a particular topic, and each will be addressed in an individual record. Thus, a topic may contain multiple records, e.g., a search in Pennsy
