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HHS‐proposed rule gutting HIPAA would especially hurt patients with SUD
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30593
Subject(s) - health insurance portability and accountability act , human services , internet privacy , business , accountability , medical emergency , medicine , confidentiality , political science , law , computer science
In the ongoing call to make 42 CFR like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), people who want access to patient records for alcohol and drug use disorders may be thinking “Be careful what you ask for.” Now the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has made good on a promise to try to get rid of most of the protections of HIPAA. The proposed modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, published Jan. 21 in the Federal Register and released earlier, would have negative consequences for people with substance use disorder (SUD) — and to all patients — according to comments filed by the Legal Action Center and the American Medical Association.