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 ...

This guide includes everything employers need to know about HIPAA requirements, as well as a HIPAA compliance checklist.

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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 ...

Ironically, HIPAA was written at a time when most providers were on paper charts and submitting paper claims. It established a framework for protecting patient information and focused heavily on the ...

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 ...

Ever since the updated HIPAA rule took effect last March, some hospital IT departments see themselves as “the HIPAA police,” clamping down in ways that the rule doesn't require, says one industry ...

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to relax safety measures for people who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus and the country begins to reopen, many employers, ...

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 ...