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HIPAA Notification Focuses on COVID-19 Vaccination Registration

Published on Fri Feb 19, 2021

If your practice is scrambling to assist patients with COVID-19 vaccination appointments via web-based scheduling applications (WBSAs), you and your vendor can heave a HIPAA sigh of relief. On Jan. 19, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced another COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE)-inspired notification of enforcement discretion. This one concerns covered entities (CEs) use of WBSAs to assist [...]
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