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HIPAA:

Emergencies Don't Trump Your HIPAA Requirements, HHS Says

Ebola sparks new HIPAA guidance. Do you know your patients’ HIPAA privacy rights in emergency situations? How about your obligations to public health reporting? Here’s what you need to know so an emergency situation doesn’t become a HIPAA breach disaster. Citing the recent Ebola virus outbreak, the HHS Office for Civil Rights has released guidance on HIPAA compliance in emergency [...]
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