Does the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act – better known as HIPAA – make it illegal to disclose someone's COVID-19 vaccine status? "That's absurd," said Donna Shalala. Shalala would ...

Some are claiming that questions about Covid-19 vaccination status are violations of HIPAA. Here security checks Covid-19 vaccination cards before the game between the Toronto Blue Jays and Miami ...

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Some public figures have claimed that asking someone's vaccination status is a HIPAA violation. But HIPAA, a healthcare privacy law, only applies to medical professionals and entities. That means ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — You might have seen a claim online that said your employer or your coworkers cannot ask you whether you're vaccinated because of the HIPAA federal privacy law. So we're verifying, Is ...

In examining how the Office of Civil Rights administered its periodic Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act audit program from January 2016 through December 2020, the U.S. Department of ...

Businesses and employers are navigating the question on whether to require COVID-19 vaccinations for employees and customers or not. One side supports mandating vaccines and several businesses, ...

It seems like nearly every day there is a new headline about a hospital or other medical facility suffering another HIPAA breach. Most of the articles discuss the “cause” of the breach, such as the ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has never been the most glamorous law; however, it has undoubtedly enjoyed more of a spotlight in recent years with the COVID-19 ...

HIPAA is a major shift in the way we do health care." Moreover, HIPAA's reach is more encompassing than anyone in the states thought it would be when the U.S. Congress passed the law in 1996. HIPAA ...

Is your email a HIPAA Compliant? Or does it need to be a HIPAA complaint for your private practice? You may think the answer is obvious and ofcourse, as a healthcare professional you need to be aware ...

In August 1996, President Clinton signed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) into law. For many Americans, HIPAA is a blip on the radar — some papers that get signed when ...