Question

What is the purpose of Peer Review? Does this process violate HIPAA? Why or why not? What rules apply to Peer Review?

Answer 1

The purpose of peer review is to assess the validity, quality and originality of articles. To find out and reject invalid or poor quality works.

NPeer review through proper channels falls into exception of health care operations. But some pitfalls exists that may cause the physicians HIPAA liability, when transmits to third party, so be careful.

Unless it is open peer review, the identity of reviewers must be kept confidential.Reviewers can advise and make recommendations but the editor makes the decision.Assessment should be objective and the manuscripts only, not the authors.These are the rules.