The HIPAA Privacy Rule generally permits hospitals and other healthcare facilities to maintain facility directories that provide certain basic information about patients within the facilities. The [...]
The HIPAA Privacy Rule’s “Right of Access” provision requires providers to make patient medical records available for viewing, inspecting, and copying. In early 2019, the Department of Health and [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued several Notices of Enforcement Discretion during the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, OCR will not [...]
The Information Technology and Innovation Fund (ITIF), a prominent independent, nonpartisan think tank, has recommended a repeal of a number of U.S. privacy regulations, including HIPAA. ITIF has recommended [...]
Recently, many organizations have begun to wonder if a risk assessment is mandatory. This in part is due to misinformation on some websites that claim that a HIPAA mandatory [...]
Under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, a limited data set is a set of identifiable healthcare information that covered entities are permitted to share with certain entities for research purposes, [...]
HIPAA photo violations occur when healthcare providers release images of a patient without prior authorization. HIPAA requires organizations working with protected health information (PHI) to ensure [...]
State public records laws, also known as open records or freedom of information laws, provide for certain public access to government records. However, HIPAA requires covered entities to take [...]
Under the HIPAA Security Rule, covered entities and business associates are required to implement appropriate administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and security [...]
The HIPAA Privacy Rule dictates how a healthcare provider may share protected information, or PHI in the workers compensation context. PHI disclosures to the employer and [...]
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