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Public Health Covered Entities Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

OCR Finalizes Post-Dobbs HIPAA Regulatory Changes Impacting Health Care Organizations

On April 22, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced final regulatory updates to the Privacy Rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

OCR: CEs May Offer COVID-19 Patient 'List' to First Responders

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 4 (April 2020) In new guidance, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has authorized hospitals and other covered entities (CEs) that may be faced with demands from first responders and law...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

HHS OCR to Exercise Enforcement Discretion to Allow Business Associates to Share PHI for Public Health and Health Oversight...

On April 2, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that the agency will exercise enforcement discretion with respect to certain uses and disclosures of protected...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

HIPAA Update - OCR Enforcement Discretion to Allow Business Associates to Disclose PHI for Public Health Activities and Health...

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On Thursday, April 2, 2020, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued a Notification of Enforcement Discretion under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”)....more

Husch Blackwell LLP

OCR Issues Guidance Related To Disclosures To Law Enforcement, Paramedics, Other First Responders And Public Health Authorities...

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On March 17, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights (OCR) issued guidance related to how Covered Entities can comply with HIPAA and the Privacy Rule and still disclose protected health...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Public Health Emergencies and the HIPAA Privacy Rule

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Will HIPAA obligations be relaxed or waived in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States? They could be. This blog post contains information that is helpful to understand in preparation for such possibility....more

Winstead PC

HIPAA and COVID-19: Privacy Protections Still Control in Case of Pandemic

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The Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV; COVID-19) continues to spread, and news changes moment by moment on its impact to our social ecosystems. This is especially the case for the healthcare industry, which is facing mounting...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Managing the Commercial Impact of the Coronavirus: Implications for Health Care

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The coronavirus (provisionally named SARS-CoV-2, with its disease being named COVID-19) has now been documented in more than 100 countries and territories. Over 120,000 cases have now been documented across the globe,...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

What Employers Need to Know about HIPAA Compliance during the Coronavirus Outbreak

In light of a potential or actual coronavirus pandemic, we at Brownstein have begun to receive inquiries from employers concerned about being subject to, and running afoul of, the Health Insurance Portability and...more

Fisher Phillips

Reminder: Coronavirus Emergency Does Not Trump HIPAA Privacy Rule

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The government just sent a stern reminder to all employers, especially those involved in providing healthcare, that they must still comply with the protections contained in the HIPAA Privacy Rule during the Coronavirus...more

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