Who does HIPAA apply to? This post discusses covered entities and business associates and their responsibilities under HIPAA.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Rules are strict and there are penalties for noncompliance, but who does HIPAA apply to?
HIPAA doesn’t apply to animals, but vets have a general professional obligation, backed up by law in most U.S. states, to maintain client confident...
Last updated: 20 March 2024 ; An email must be HIPAA compliant when it contains protected health information (PHI) and is sent by a HIPAA-covered entity. Let's go a bit deeper into what this means. HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It's a federal law that helps keep your medical information safe and private when shared with doctors, hospitals, and health insurance companies. This medical information is known as protected health information, or PHI. We'll d...
HIPAA protects personal health information (PHI) held by a covered entity. But when it comes to schools and educational institutions, another personal data law supersedes HIPAA — the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Even though HIPAA protects health data, it doesn’t apply to health data stored in a student record. This means that most schools aren’t subject to HIPAA’s data privacy requirements. However, there are special cases where FERPA doesn’t apply to a school or ...
Recently, Google created a program to help healthcare systems predict the risks and benefits of giving certain treatments to patients based on their information. Following HIPAA standards is essential to protecting your business from financial and legal problems. So does Dropbox enable HIPAA compliance? Or is it better for your business to stay away? · Dropbox has stated that it is willing to sign a BAA with HIPAA-covered entities . Dropbox also offers account settings that ...
Customers who are subject to HIPAA must not use Google Analytics in any way that implicates Google’s access to, or collection of, PHI, and may only use Google Analytics on pages that are not HIPAA-covered. Authenticated pages are likely to be HIPAA-covered and customers should not set Google Analytics tags on those pages. Unauthenticated pages that are related to the provision of health care services, including as described in the HHS bulletin, are more likely to be HIPAA-covered, and customer...
Establish whether your organization is required to comply with HIPAA. ; Appoint a HIPAA Privacy Officer. ; If required, appoint a Security Officer.
HIPAA training is required as often as is necessary to ensure the privacy of Protected Health Information (PHI) and the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic PHI – notwithstanding that internal and external factors can increase the frequency of HIPAA training. In most cases it is necessary to provide HIPAA training more often than mandated by the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, and at least annually. The HIPAA Privacy Rule states that covered entities must train workforc...
The guide covers: Types of Organizations Must Provide HIPAA Training · Ideal Length · Required Privacy and Security Training Topics · Role-Based Training · Timing Requirements · Consequences for Inadequate Training