Every patient who enters a healthcare facility deserves to be treated with dignity and respect and be empowered to make personal decisions about their healthcare choices. These two tenets are at the core of the patient bill of rights. A list of guarantees first developed in 1973 and then revised in 1992, by the American Hospital Association.

In 1996, The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was signed into law. The law, more commonly know as HIPAA, protects the privacy of every medical record and strengthens every individual's control of personal health records by giving us greater access to our personal health information and greater control of its use and disclosure.

This DVD program on HIPAA Rules and Compliance defines HIPAA terms, explains the regulation and discusses what business entities and employees in healthcare-related fields need to do to comply with them.