Healthcare/Hospital Law
Apr. 8, 2003
Employers Must Protect Health Information Under New Rules
Focus Column - Health Care Law - By Mary E. Smith - Last summer, the Department of Health and Human Services adopted its final privacy rules under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. 45 C.F.R. Parts 160, 164. These rules provide guidelines for safeguarding the use and disclosure of individually identifiable health information and impose obligations on "covered entities" that use or disclose "protected health information."
Health Care Law
By Mary E. Smith
Last summer, the Department...
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