OCR adds new FAQs on accounting for public health access, more
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, September 5, 2003
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The privacy rule does not require covered entities to account for their disclosures to public health authorities when they have data use agreements with the public health authorities receiving the information, and the only information disclosed is in the form of a limited data set, according to a frequently asked question (FAQ) recently posted on the Office for Civil Rights' (OCR) Web site.
OCR added the following questions:
Go to http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/ and look under "What's New in Privacy" to find the FAQS.
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