WEBVTT 00:02.460 --> 00:03.180 In this video. 00:03.180 --> 00:05.390 We're going to be talking about Hospital Austin. 00:09.010 --> 00:15.190 Now, first off, this video is not going to be a video where we're going to find all sorts of information, 00:15.190 --> 00:18.070 medical history and whatnot about a patient. 00:18.070 --> 00:26.650 This is quite simply going to be able to help us find if a person is in a hospital and possibly a little 00:26.650 --> 00:31.570 bit about their their condition by which which area they're in. 00:32.170 --> 00:34.630 So we may need to find a person. 00:34.630 --> 00:41.660 We may need to find a criminal suspect that we think may be injured, a person of interest, a friend 00:41.660 --> 00:49.510 or family member, a trafficked individual, missing person, verify employee health status. 00:49.510 --> 00:52.390 Maybe someone made a claim that they're they're stuck in the hospital. 00:52.390 --> 00:53.650 They went skiing, they broke their leg. 00:53.650 --> 00:54.700 They're in the hospital. 00:56.170 --> 00:58.150 We need to verify something. 00:59.420 --> 01:00.230 So. 01:01.700 --> 01:04.880 First and foremost, never impersonate a family member. 01:05.480 --> 01:07.160 You're going to be able to find out a little bit. 01:07.160 --> 01:12.620 Information, things like you be able to call the hospital and say, hey, is so-and-so there? 01:13.260 --> 01:14.870 Are they admitted to your hospital? 01:15.260 --> 01:21.440 They will not give you additional information such as their specific conditions and whatnot, unless 01:21.440 --> 01:22.640 you're a family member. 01:23.330 --> 01:25.250 So never impersonate a family member. 01:25.250 --> 01:28.910 Never impersonate medical professional or insurance agent. 01:28.910 --> 01:35.150 If you're not their insurance agent or otherwise social engineer, your way to get more information. 01:36.690 --> 01:39.270 The reason for this is, of course, there's going to be. 01:40.610 --> 01:48.170 Medical laws to help protect a person's medical records, which there really should be anyways. 01:48.170 --> 01:55.370 So United States there is HIPAA or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. 01:55.670 --> 02:00.320 Essentially, this is composed of national regulations used for the disclosure and protection of health 02:00.320 --> 02:02.530 information or high. 02:03.990 --> 02:07.890 In Europe, there's going to be the general data protection regulation. 02:07.890 --> 02:13.950 And in other countries, I'm sure there's some sort of regulation that helps protect a person's private 02:13.950 --> 02:15.270 medical information. 02:16.480 --> 02:21.430 Also your local, state, counties and whatnot may have additional restrictions. 02:21.430 --> 02:23.320 So you do want to be mindful of that. 02:26.130 --> 02:29.910 So essentially what this allows us to do is we could verify information. 02:31.810 --> 02:38.750 In the United States, you can contact a hospital to see and verify a person x has been admitted. 02:38.770 --> 02:44.560 So, for example, if you're looking for a friend and you're not sure if they ended up in a hospital, 02:44.560 --> 02:49.180 you can call it generally call hospital and say, hey, I'm looking for my friend so-and-so. 02:49.450 --> 02:51.730 I want to see if they were a miniature hospital. 02:52.000 --> 02:55.420 And in my experience, hospital staffs are pretty nice. 02:55.450 --> 02:59.230 They'll they'll go through their records and see if they're if they're admitted there. 02:59.410 --> 03:05.470 And if they are, they will tell you, yeah, so-and-so is admitted into, say, the ICU, the emergency 03:05.470 --> 03:07.240 room or what not. 03:07.840 --> 03:13.900 Beyond that, they will not give you additional information unless, again, you are a family member 03:13.900 --> 03:18.370 or, say, law enforcement with a warrant or whatnot. 03:19.640 --> 03:25.340 So again, don't impersonate a family member if you're not the family member. 03:25.640 --> 03:31.130 Not only will you get in a lot of trouble, so will the person that gave you the unknowingly gave you 03:31.130 --> 03:31.970 that information. 03:31.970 --> 03:33.650 So please don't do that. 03:33.650 --> 03:36.500 That's not going to be good for anyone. 03:37.070 --> 03:40.330 So again, that was a pretty quick and simple video. 03:40.340 --> 03:49.220 Again, it's this will just help us to figure out is so-and-so admitted to this particular hospital 03:49.220 --> 03:54.860 and kind of what they're says is ICU emergency room recover and what and whatnot. 03:55.310 --> 03:56.430 Thank you for watching. 03:56.450 --> 03:57.620 I'll see you next video.