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LAC to HHS: Don't weaken patient privacy, strengthen it
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32289
Subject(s) - health insurance portability and accountability act , confidentiality , human services , government (linguistics) , business , accountability , internet privacy , protected health information , health records , medical record , patient consent , action (physics) , medical emergency , medicine , law , political science , health care , health policy , philosophy , linguistics , physics , hrhis , quantum mechanics , computer science , radiology
The Legal Action Center (LAC) is urging the federal government not to weaken patient privacy, but rather, to strengthen it. The December 2018 request for information (RFI) from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) cited “regulatory burdens” of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) (see ADAW , Jan. 21). Ironically, the forces that want to kill 42 CFR Part 2, the confidentiality regulation that applies only to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment records and requires individualized written consent by the patient before records can be released, want to make that regulation more like HIPAA.