Health Insurance Probability and Accountability Act of 1996 serve the rights to protect the privacy of each individual health information. It gives patients an array of rights and must meet certain standards so that companies will not reach a security branch for providing confidential information on an individual. The Health Insurance Probability and Accountability privacy rules does allow the balance between that helps permits a person private health care information that is needed for in order to provide a patient’s care or other essential information. Patient’s information should not be discussed unless someone fully verified personal information like social security number, date of birth, full name, and address. Some information can be discussed with someone else in behalf on the member, but there are certain information that should never be discussed unless spoken with the member. “The HIPAA electronic data requirements are meant to encourage the health care industry to move the handing and transmission of patient information from manual to electronic systems in order to improve security, lower costs, and lower the error rate.” (Dept. of Health, 2015). JSBMHA failed to comply with the social worker-patient privilege. You are not supposed to discuss patient’s information unless you feel that they are putting themselves or anyone else in danger. Betty discussed in great details about the family she was dealing with and she even included their personal information as well as their