The Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Health and Human Services Dept. has issued two brochures informing consumers of their medical information privacy rights in Chinese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Tagalog, and Vietnamese in addition to English and Spanish.

One brochure describes the privacy rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, outlining who must comply, what information is protected, how this information can be shared, and what rights are granted to individuals under the privacy rule. The other brochure describes the individual rights granted by the privacy rule, including the right to access personal medical records, the right to request an accounting of disclosures, and the right to file a complaint for a potential violation of the privacy rule.

OCR has posted information in these languages about how to file a privacy complaint, along with translated privacy complaint forms on its website.