If someone repeates a rumor they heard about someone's medical condition, is this a hipaa violation? And can the person repeating that rumor be sued for slander?
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If someone repeates a rumor they heard about someone's medical condition, is this a hipaa violation? And can the person repeating that rumor be sued for slander?
No. A violation occurs when someone working in a health care facility providing care for an individual reveals information about the treatment. The person who was the source of the rumor might be guilty of a violation, but not someone spreading the rumor.
Not unless they got that information from your private medical documents.
No that is called being a gosip and against the Ten Commandments but not against mans law.
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