42 CFR Part 2 is a federal regulation that requires substance abuse disorder treatment providers observe privacy and confidentiality restrictions with respect to patient records. These regulations, together with [...]
The Hawaiian language has a memorable equivalent of the English word for “fast”: “wikiwiki.” The term “wikiwiki” can be spoken quickly. Similarly, when a person looks up a “wiki” [...]
Providers may want to record conversations that they have with patients to refer back to for treatment purposes. However, there are certain restrictions placed on recording protected health information [...]
Recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule on electronic protected health information (ePHI) sharing. The rule is scheduled to become [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
One of the many misunderstandings in circulation about HIPAA is over how it protects - and when it does not protect - patient privacy. HIPAA patient privacy is regulated [...]
A former employee of ACM Global Laboratories, part of Rochester Regional Health, is being accused of continuously accessing a co-worker’s protected health information (PHI) without authorization. [...]
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