title: HIPAA enhancements to improve emergency department security.
abstract: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) seems to be as useful as is capitalism to the medically uninsured (or perhaps, as necessary as another leukotriene inhibitor for asthma). Is the emergency medical community doing enough? Can we improve on HIPAA to increase privacy in the emergency department? HIPAA regulations are reviewed in all their wondrous complexity and simplified so that even your medical director can understand them.
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Freeman
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D020408:Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; D014481:United States; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic