In this video.
We're going to be talking about Hospital Austin.
Now, first off, this video is not going to be a video where we're going to find all sorts of information,
medical history and whatnot about a patient.
This is quite simply going to be able to help us find if a person is in a hospital and possibly a little
bit about their their condition by which which area they're in.
So we may need to find a person.
We may need to find a criminal suspect that we think may be injured, a person of interest, a friend
or family member, a trafficked individual, missing person, verify employee health status.
Maybe someone made a claim that they're they're stuck in the hospital.
They went skiing, they broke their leg.
They're in the hospital.
We need to verify something.
So.
First and foremost, never impersonate a family member.
You're going to be able to find out a little bit.
Information, things like you be able to call the hospital and say, hey, is so-and-so there?
Are they admitted to your hospital?
They will not give you additional information such as their specific conditions and whatnot, unless
you're a family member.
So never impersonate a family member.
Never impersonate medical professional or insurance agent.
If you're not their insurance agent or otherwise social engineer, your way to get more information.
The reason for this is, of course, there's going to be.
Medical laws to help protect a person's medical records, which there really should be anyways.
So United States there is HIPAA or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
Essentially, this is composed of national regulations used for the disclosure and protection of health
information or high.
In Europe, there's going to be the general data protection regulation.
And in other countries, I'm sure there's some sort of regulation that helps protect a person's private
medical information.
Also your local, state, counties and whatnot may have additional restrictions.
So you do want to be mindful of that.
So essentially what this allows us to do is we could verify information.
In the United States, you can contact a hospital to see and verify a person x has been admitted.
So, for example, if you're looking for a friend and you're not sure if they ended up in a hospital,
you can call it generally call hospital and say, hey, I'm looking for my friend so-and-so.
I want to see if they were a miniature hospital.
And in my experience, hospital staffs are pretty nice.
They'll they'll go through their records and see if they're if they're admitted there.
And if they are, they will tell you, yeah, so-and-so is admitted into, say, the ICU, the emergency
room or what not.
Beyond that, they will not give you additional information unless, again, you are a family member
or, say, law enforcement with a warrant or whatnot.
So again, don't impersonate a family member if you're not the family member.
Not only will you get in a lot of trouble, so will the person that gave you the unknowingly gave you
that information.
So please don't do that.
That's not going to be good for anyone.
So again, that was a pretty quick and simple video.
Again, it's this will just help us to figure out is so-and-so admitted to this particular hospital
and kind of what they're says is ICU emergency room recover and what and whatnot.
Thank you for watching.
I'll see you next video.