FERPA and HIPAA

FERPA Description

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) is a federal law designed to protect the privacy of students’ education records. Rush University takes seriously its commitment to protect the privacy of our students and their education records. To read more about the university’s commitment to FERPA, click here.

HIPAA Exception Letter, Danger to Self or Others

The HIPAA Privacy Rule protects the privacy of patients’ health information but is balanced to ensure that appropriate uses and disclosures of the information still may be made when necessary to treat a patient, to protect the nation’s public health, and for other critical purposes, such as when a provider seeks to warn or report that persons may be at risk of harm because of a patient.

Please click on HIPAA Exception Letter, Danger to Self or Others to read more about this Privacy Rule.