As money pours into health care startups built around artificial intelligence — more than 350 deals totaling $4 billion in 2019 — the field is generally overlooking the potential litigation risk ...
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The basic provisions of privacy for protected health information are well known in HIPAA. Exceptions abound for various law enforcement purposes as applied to both the federal and state government and ...
HHS’ Office for Civil Rights has issued new guidance on the refill reminder exception to HIPAA, clarifying rules about communicating with patients about prescription refills and distributing ...
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An exception to federal medical privacy law allows health departments to warn police and firefighters responding to a home where someone has tested positive for COVID-19. But that’s not happening in ...
The law prohibits health care providers and businesses and people working with them – including administrative staff, laboratories, pharmacies, health insurers and so on – from disclosing your health ...
Editor’s Note: As workplaces reopen, many employers are grappling with whether to require employees to be vaccinated or to impose mask mandates. Some have faced resistance in the form of false claims ...
What is HIPAA? What information about COVID-19 cases is being released? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is a federal law enacted in 1996 that required the U.S. Department of ...