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Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom Health Freedom Minute January 28, 2016 Obama Changes HIPAA for Gun Control As par...

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Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom

Health Freedom Minute January 28, 2016

Obama Changes HIPAA for Gun Control As part of Obamaʼs crackdown on guns, the HIPAA privacy rule has been changed to allow certain individuals to be reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The new HIPAA rule grants certain clinics, hospitals, and data repositories, permission to report a set of personal data to the database, including name, birth date and a number that indicates that the individual is subject to firearms prohibitions under the Federal Mental Health Prohibitor, a classification which is assigned for reasons such as involuntary commitment, incompetency, insanity or being declared a danger to themselves and others. HIPAA already allows certain reporting to law enforcement without your consent, but this reporting wasnʼt permissible under HIPAA. Now it is. “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule and the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NCIS), Final Rule,” Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health and Human Services, Federal Register, January 6, 2016.

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