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Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), it is illegal for health professionals to disclose patients’ health information without authorization from patients, the physician, and the management that protects electronic health records (Pozgar, 2020).  Based on the established case scenario, it was unethical for my colleague to snoop into a cousin’s health information in favor of the cousin’s family.

In my view, I would inform the family that it is against the code of ethics and federal regulations to breach patients’ information without authorization. I would ensure that the family members know the code of ethics of privacy and confidentiality and the HIPAA regulations to understand the constraints that prevent me from breaching the patient’s data (Pozgar, 2020). Further, I would inform my colleague that it was inappropriate to snoop into the test results

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