HIPAA guarantees these rights to patients:
- Right to privacy
- Right to confidential use of protected health information (PHI) for treatment, billing, and other health care operations (such as quality improvement)
- Right to access and amend their health information upon request
- Right to provide specific authorization for use of their health information other than for treatment, billing and other operations
- Right to have their name withheld from patient directions (having their name not listed as being present in a facility other than for treatment, billing, and other operations)
- Right to request that information concerning their care is not released to specific individuals
- Right to request that specific individuals are not told of their presence in a facility