As a new semester has started this week, I have been asked to share my thoughts on topics I have been learning and studying each week. This week I have studied two important privacy acts known as HIPAA (The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and FERPA (The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act). These are some of the laws that many have heard about or are very familiar with if you work in a medical or educational field.
The question posed this week was, "Why is knowing and understanding these laws important when working with children, students and families?".
Both of these laws have to deal with the privacy, access and security of either medical or educational records. As a future educator, it is very important for me to know and understand these laws because I will be working with children of all ages with different disabilities. It is important for me to know and understand these laws to make sure that I guard and keep all medical and educational records private and secure so I don't get in trouble and penalized. Not only is it important to do but it is also the law so there is no excuse for not implementing the set procedures in the classroom. Abiding by these laws also increases trust and strengthens the relationship between educators or medical personnel and students, children and their families. Without these laws, I think that people would be more judgmental and discriminatory towards others because they would have access to all their information to laugh at or make fun of. These laws provide that much needed element of privacy and security so individuals can keep their educational and medical records private.
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