Patient Privacy Information

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)

Please refer to http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Privacy/patients.html for a brief overview of the federal legislation known as HIPAA and how Johns Hopkins complies with HIPAA.

Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP)

Below are links to the Notice of Privacy Practices for Johns Hopkins Health Care Providers and its Acknowledgement of Receipt.

English	Notice of Privacy Practices	Acknowledgement of Receipt
Arabic	مذكرة الممارسات المتعلقة بالخصوصية	إقرار بإستلام
Chinese	保密措施通知	回执
Greek	Ανακοίνωση για την Προστασία Προσωπικών Δεδομένων	Βεβαίωση Παραλαβής
Korean	개인 정보 보호	영수증 인정서
Russian	Уведомление о сохранении конфиденциальной информации	Подтверждение получения
Spanish	Notificación de Practicas Privadas	Acuso de Recibo
Burmese
Nepali	नोटिस अफ प्राइभेसी प्राक्टिसेस / निजि विवरणको उपयोग संबन्धि सूचनापत्र	प्राप्ति स्वीकार / बुझेको जानकारी

If you have any questions, please contact your coordinator or the Johns Hopkins Privacy Officer at 410-735-6509 or hipaa@jhmi.edu.

The Chesapeake Regional Information System for Our Patients (CRISP)

Our Notice of Privacy Practices identifies that some of our Johns Hopkins health care provider organizations participate in the Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients, Inc. (CRISP), an internet-based, state-wide, state-approved health information exchange. We may share information that we obtain or create about you with other health care providers or other health care entities for treatment, payment and health care operations purposes, as permitted by law, through CRISP. For example, information about your past medical care and current medical conditions and medications can be available to us or to your non-Johns Hopkins primary care physician or hospital, if they participate in CRISP as well. Exchange of health information can provide faster access, better coordination of care and assist providers and public health officials in making more informed treatment decisions. You may opt-out of CRISP and prevent providers from being able to search for your information through the exchange. Even if you opt-out, a certain amount of your information may be retained by the exchange, and your ordering or referring physicians, if participating in CRISP, may access diagnostic information about you, such as reports of imaging and lab results. Also, your physicians, if participating in CRISP, still may use CRISP's secure messaging services to discuss your care.

Information from your medical records that we obtain or create about you, as permitted by law, also may be shared through CRISP with your health plan or health insurance company for the sole purposes of enhancing or coordinating your care.

You may "opt-out" and prevent searching for your medical information through CRISP, or prevent the sharing of your information with your health plan or health insurance company, by contacting CRISP at 1-877-952-7477 or completing and submitting an Opt-Out form to CRISP by mail or through their website at www.crisphealth.org/ or by using one of the forms below. Not all of the Johns Hopkins organizations participate in CRISP; your Johns Hopkins health care provider can provide information as to whether or not it participates in CRISP.