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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday March 18 2020, @02:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the important-information dept.

Notification of Enforcement Discretion for telehealth:

We are empowering medical providers to serve patients wherever they are during this national public health emergency. We are especially concerned about reaching those most at risk, including older persons and persons with disabilities. – Roger Severino, OCR Director.

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is responsible for enforcing certain regulations issued under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, to protect the privacy and security of protected health information, namely the HIPAA Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules (the HIPAA Rules).

During the COVID-19 national emergency, which also constitutes a nationwide public health emergency, covered health care providers subject to the HIPAA Rules may seek to communicate with patients, and provide telehealth services, through remote communications technologies.  Some of these technologies, and the manner in which they are used by HIPAA covered health care providers, may not fully comply with the requirements of the HIPAA Rules.

OCR will exercise its enforcement discretion and will not impose penalties for noncompliance with the regulatory requirements under the HIPAA Rules against covered health care providers in connection with the good faith provision of telehealth during the COVID-19 nationwide public health emergency.  This notification is effective immediately.

A covered health care provider that wants to use audio or video communication technology to provide telehealth to patients during the COVID-19 nationwide public health emergency can use any non-public facing remote communication product that is available to communicate with patients.  OCR is exercising its enforcement discretion to not impose penalties for noncompliance with the HIPAA Rules in connection with the good faith provision of telehealth using such non-public facing audio or video communication products during the COVID-19 nationwide public health emergency.  This exercise of discretion applies to telehealth provided for any reason, regardless of whether the telehealth service is related to the diagnosis and treatment of health conditions related to COVID-19.


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  • (Score: 2) by NickM on Wednesday March 18 2020, @03:40AM (9 children)

    by NickM (2867) on Wednesday March 18 2020, @03:40AM (#972628) Journal

    It's lifted verbatim from the article !¿!
    Do you want them to annotate each anomaly with [sic] ?
    It would probably please the dude of Samos but it is worth it ?

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by aristarchus on Wednesday March 18 2020, @03:45AM (8 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday March 18 2020, @03:45AM (#972630) Journal

    Yes, we do! They should at least step up to the standards of an aristarchus submission!

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 18 2020, @06:22AM (6 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 18 2020, @06:22AM (#972653) Journal

      step up to the standards of an aristarchus submission!

      That would probably be an interesting party game. "How low can you go?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6llMNhINxFM [youtube.com]

      • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Wednesday March 18 2020, @06:28AM (5 children)

        by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday March 18 2020, @06:28AM (#972656) Journal

        Sorry, I never click on undescribed youtube links. One never knows what they might be! And, considering the source, probably barnyard pron, again!!!

        • (Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 18 2020, @06:49AM (4 children)

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 18 2020, @06:49AM (#972662) Journal

          In context, ya big dummy, what might a reasonable person presume the video to be about?

          Oh, I'm sorry. You probably don't have any idea what a reasonable person might think. I should have checked my privilege at the door.

          • (Score: 1, Insightful) by aristarchus on Wednesday March 18 2020, @07:09AM (2 children)

            by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday March 18 2020, @07:09AM (#972665) Journal

            Yeah, Roonyway, check your white privilege! Check it good! Reason is foreign to you, so you are afraid of it.

            • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 18 2020, @08:05AM (1 child)

              by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 18 2020, @08:05AM (#972678) Journal

              I says,

              a reasonable person . . . should have checked my privilege

              You says,

              check your white privilege!

              You seem to explain a lot here. You confuse "reasonable" with "white"? So, "non-white" would be - "unreasonable?" I'm not making this up, I'm reading your response to my post. Context, and all that. "non-white" = "unreasonable".

              So, NOW we understand how you get all that inside material about the alt-right!! YOU'RE ONE OF THEM!! You know what they are thinking, because you're the one thinking it!

              BUSTED, ARISTARCHUS!!

              • (Score: 1, Insightful) by aristarchus on Wednesday March 18 2020, @08:16AM

                by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday March 18 2020, @08:16AM (#972679) Journal

                Your lack of education and reading comprehension fails you once again, my sodden Runaway! Your "white priviledge" means you are the one who cannot recognize reason, as you have proved lo these many times. As Kanye West said, before he got rich and went cray-cray "I see white people! And they don't even know they're white!". Such is the level of your self-ignorant racism, cracker Runaway. Tell us again how you work with non-whites, and don't have a racist bone in your body! Please, tell us again! But seriously, someone with so little self-knowledge is ill equipped to even barely begin to comprehend one such as myself. You are embarrassing yourself again, oh little runaway.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2020, @01:05PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2020, @01:05PM (#972743)

            Pretty sure it would be Rick Asty.

    • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday March 19 2020, @03:24PM

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 19 2020, @03:24PM (#973194) Journal
      Excuse me while a laugh aloud...