NCVHS to advocate expanding HIPAA protections
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, October 23, 2006
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HHS should extend the privacy and security requirements to cover exchanges of information by organizations that are not covered entities, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) will urge in a soon-to-be-released report, according Government Health IT. HIPAA currently applies only to covered entities (e.g., providers that conduct electronic transactions), excluding some organizations that could obtain and disclose PHI through health information networks.
NCVHS will also advocate that HHS develop
- policies to correctly match patients with their health records
- standards that would allow patient/physician preferences to apply across a health information network (e.g., a patient's request to keep rehabilitation confidential)
- a campaign to inform the public of the value of health information exchange
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