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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

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

Holland & Hart LLP

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

Pullman & Comley - Connecticut Health Law

Vox Article on Vulnerabilities of COVID-19 Testing Registration System Serves as Reminder of the Dangers of Tracking Tech on HIPAA...

In 2018, we published an article on Walgreens’ use of session replay scripts and how such use could lead to an accidental data breach under HIPAA. Last week, an article in Vox explained how Walgreens was again apparently...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

Foley Hoag LLP - Medicaid and the Law

New Developments in HIPAA and Related Issues in Health Information Law

Halloween or HIPAA: Which is Scarier? HIPAA and the Pandemic - Telehealth: - On Friday, March 20, 2020, OCR announced it will “exercise its enforcement discretion and will not impose penalties for noncompliance with...more

Burr & Forman

HIPAA “Relaxation” During COVID-19

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Over the past several months, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”), the entity responsible for compliance with and enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and its implementing regulations...more

Payne & Fears

The EEOC Continues to Update Guidance on Returning to Work Pandemic-Prepared

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The EEOC continues to update its pandemic preparedness guidance regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act, and other Equal Employment Opportunity laws in the wake of COVID-19. The guidance...more

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OCR Releases Notification of Enforcement Discretion at COVID-19 Community-Based Testing Sites

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On April 9, the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services (OCR) released a notice of enforcement discretion to covered health care providers and their business associates that, during the COVID-19...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

COVID-19 Update: OCR announces HIPAA enforcement discretion for community-based testing sites

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On April 9, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it will exercise its enforcement discretion and will not impose penalties for HIPAA violations made in...more

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