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HIPAA Tips With Williams Mullen - COVID Health Information and HIPAA – Do You Know the Rules?

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In the inaugural episode of HIPAA Tips With Williams Mullen, health care attorneys Rebecca Ivey and Nathan Kottkamp describe major HIPAA exceptions and what employers can do with COVID health information. They also discuss...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Debunking Data Privacy Myths

Data is a critical and invaluable asset of all companies. Data privacy and security concerns affect every company, industry, and consumer. Despite this, an astonishing amount of misinformation surrounding data privacy,...more

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Ooh Baby It’s a Wild World…Your Vaccination Status: What Does HIPAA Actually Protect and Prohibit

Earlier this fall, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued guidance to help the public understand when a business or employer can request information on an individual’s COVID-19 vaccination status without violating the HIPAA...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Protecting Employees' Private Health Information from a Cyberattack in the Age of COVID-19

With COVID-19, employers are receiving and processing an ever-increasing amount of their employees' confidential health information. From COVID-19 test results to vaccination status, many employers are routinely collecting...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Richmond Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - December 10th, Richmond, VA

Our one-day Regional Compliance Conferences provide attendees with a forum to interact with local compliance professionals, share information about your compliance successes and challenges, and create educational...more

Fisher Phillips

Is Asking an Employee if They’re Vaccinated a HIPAA Violation? What Employers Need to Know

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“Are you fully vaccinated?” This seems to have become a million-dollar question that employers want to pose to their workers, but confusion abounds regarding the legal contours of this deceptively dangerous question. Many...more

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HIPAA and COVID-19 – OCR Publishes Online Guidance on the Application of HIPAA

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The Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”), which is the federal agency that enforces the health care privacy rules under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”), recently published guidance covering various...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

HIPAA and COVID-19 Vaccination Status: The Office of Civil Rights Issues Workplace Guidance

“The guidance reminds the public that the HIPAA Privacy Rule does not apply to employers or employment records.” On September 30, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights...more

Dickinson Wright

HIPAA Considerations for Covered Entity Employers Seeking Employee Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination

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As employees return to the workplace, an increasing number of employers are asking their workers to provide proof of their COVID-19 vaccinations. This has led to many questions and concerns about whether such a practice is...more

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New HIPAA Guidance from OCR on COVID-19 Vaccines and the Workplace

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued guidance regarding the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) privacy rule (the “Privacy Rule”) in the...more

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

HHS Clarifies That Inquiries About COVID-19 Vaccination Status Are Not a Violation of Privacy Rights Under HIPAA

Since the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccines earlier this year, we have often fielded questions from business owners as to whether asking customers, clients, and employees about their vaccination status is in violation of...more

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Dialysis & Nephrology Digest - October 2021

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Benesch: FTC to more stringently enforce PHR breaches by apps, connected medical devices - The FTC issued a policy statement to provide guidance to developers of health apps and connected medical devices and how they’re...more

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Nice Try, But HIPAA Privacy Doesn’t Stop Vaccine Inquiries by Employers and Businesses

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HIPAA privacy rules do not prevent employers and businesses from asking employees and visitors about their COVID-19 vaccination status, the government recently reiterated. In guidance issued on September 30, 2021, the U.S....more

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HIPAA: Top 5 Takeaways as HHS Addresses Misconceptions on Applicability to COVID-19 Vaccination Information

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The federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued guidance on the applicability of HIPAA to COVID-19 vaccination information, directly addressing a number of misconceptions about when HIPAA does, or does not,...more

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HHS OCR Issues Guidance on HIPAA, COVID-19 Vaccinations, and the Workplace

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On September 30, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR)issued guidance to help the public understand when the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996...more

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How Does HIPAA Prevent Using and Disclosing COVID-19 Vaccination Information? HHS OCR Issues Guidance

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Does HIPAA prevent businesses from asking whether customers or clients are vaccinated? (No). Does HIPAA prevent an employer from requiring an employee to disclose vaccination status? (No). Does HIPAA prohibit doctors from...more

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OCR Speaks To HIPAA, COVID-19 Vaccinations, Privacy, And The Workplace

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When use or disclosure of an individual’s health information or medical records is at issue, the assumption seems to be, much more often than not, that the HIPAA privacy and security rules apply. This has certainly been the...more

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Employee Vaccine Information: Privacy Concerns

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Given the COVID-19 vaccine mandates, employers—including healthcare entities—will need to confirm their employees’ vaccination status. Employers and healthcare providers must ensure they comply with privacy rules relating to...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 9. Privacy Briefs: September 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21 no. 9 (September, 2021) - DuPage Medical Group in Chicago said that the personal information of more than 600,000 patients may have been compromised in a July cyberattack. The medical group,...more

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Podcast: Are Vaccine Passports the Key to Reopening? - Diagnosing Health Care

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The vaccine passport has been a major topic of discussion as businesses and governments consider how to balance privacy and safety through the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. Epstein Becker Green attorneys Patricia Wagner,...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Healthcare Employee Data Privacy during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented many novel challenges and questions for employers, from administration of Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”) leave to managing performance of remote workers. For healthcare...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

OCR Waives HIPAA Penalties Against Providers Using Electronic COVID-19 Vaccine Scheduling

On February 24, 2021, the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“OCR”) announced that it will not impose penalties against covered entities or their business associates that use online...more

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OCR Relaxes Enforcement on Providers Using Scheduling Apps for COVID-19 Vaccinations

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On January 19, 2021, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a Notice of Enforcement Discretion (Notice) announcing that it will not impose penalties for...more

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