Safeguarding PHI During Covid-19 Crisis: Emerging Challenges

Apr 11, 2020

As some cities and states quickly recruit retired healthcare professionals, new medical school graduates and clinicians from other regions to assist in their COVID-19 responses, it’s critical to ensure these workers understand the importance of protecting patient information, says privacy attorney Iliana Peters of the law firm Polsinelli.“The HIPAA rules do require that individuals who will be interacting with protected health information are trained on the requirements of the HIPAA rules,” she says in an interview with Information Security Media Group.HIPAA training requirements have not been relaxed in any way as part of recent HIPAA provision waivers issued by the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office for Civil Rights in recent weeks as the healthcare sector battles the COVID-19 outbreak, she notes.

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Safeguarding PHI During Covid-19 Crisis: Emerging Challenges

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