For many healthcare organizations, website consent appears to be a settled issue. A cookie banner is displayed, a privacy policy is linked, and users are given basic choices about tracking. On paper, ...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 was enacted by the U.S. Congress to regulate the protection of private health information for ...
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CATEGORY: Subpart E - Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information TYPE: Standard: Authorizations for uses and disclosures CITATION: 45 CFR164.508 Uses and ...
A proposed HHS regulation on the Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Patient Records under 42 C.F.R. Part 2 would bring it further in line with HIPAA, which is somewhat of a double-edged ...
The nuances of the HIPAA right of access rule continue to pose challenges for health systems. Guidance previously released by The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) included extensive ...
Recent media accounts about a Rhode Island family having difficulty obtaining medical information about their son's eventually fatal substance-abuse problem struck a chord with Providence lawyer ...