[Anonymous Yahoo]

OK here's a HIPAA question.
Say you are a person with a physical disability. You have healthcare at least 18 hours a day. So maybe work for an hour and there are regular people. You tell some of them some private thing not necessarily the same things about yourself they say they will keep private. Not necessarily medically related.
Now I would assume that none of that should be talked about with any other care worker that comes or doesn't come to work with that person with a disability? For instance tranngender preference. Now if that care worker is uncomfortable I assume it should only go to their supervisor or owner of company or to person with a disability that shared the info. And I it would assume a conversation with the supervisor or owner of company would be in private from any other employee it may also have the info. Or want to also expressed concern to the supervisor or owner of company.
Or also about a person telling the person with a disability they heard talking.

[ScottGem]

I didn't follow that.

Generally HIPAA states that a health care provider cannot discuss diagnosis or treatment of someone under their care (directly ot indirectly) with anyone not expressly authorized to have that information.

[ebaines]

Let me see if I understand... a person with a disability shared some confidential information with a health care worker. And that health care worker in turn passed that information on to others. Is that right? As long as the information is not about a patient's medical condition then there's no HIPAA violation.

[Anonymous Yahoo]

What about invasion of privacy laws?
Or what about the case some Hollywood Star stated at a hospitable and coworkers at at the hospital for sharing info and they were in trouble with the law and everything.
So anything anyone says can be talked about with any one is long as it isn't medical. How professional.

[ScottGem]

What invasion of privacy laws? There are very few laws governing that. There are ethics rules for certain industries that inhibit such things. But part of the issue is up to the person. If they don't want something spreads then don't tell people you don't trust.

[Anonymous Yahoo]

And if you trusted that person. Isn't there something as defaming or something like that.

No wonder people with disabilities feel alone. Some of us only get to see Health Care workers.

[ScottGem]

Betrayal of trust is not illegal

[Fr_Chuck]

No, it is not illegal for a person to gossip about non medical things,
It may break some company rule, that they could be wrote up and a note put in their file.

But a persons sexual orientation has no protection from being discussed.

[Anonymous Yahoo]

So it has to be only things pertaining to medical. Like if the person was a counselor or something like that? Or what about if there is a diagnosis like gender Disforia (excuse spelling) which hasn't been diagnosed.
Or how about something relating to people with disabilities like a diagnosis of transitional disorder. Which basically means having problems with adjusting to different parts of disabilities and such and such. But I am propagating to medical.

[N0help4u]

Pretty much anybody can say whatever they want about another person it is not slander unless it is not true. Not much you can do unless you suffer financial loss from what is said.
HIPPA confidentiality is medical/psychiatric professions can not give out any medical information of any kind.