I believe local governments has a carve out. In fact, governments and law enforcement in general have a carve out.
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 08:06, Mike Ginsburg wrote: > I assume that while we still have HIPAA, that the City of New York meets all > HIPAA requirements and that all the appropriate paper work has been taken > care of. Otherwise, would participating labs be liable for fines? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike > Lieman > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 8:00 AM > To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] A Pill, a Scalpel, a Database > > On 2/16/06, Ruben Safir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The health department, as far as I'm concerned, can ask for any > > information it wants. Unless your showing me that this information is > > being miss used, or used legally, I'm ABSOLUTELY not interested. > > > > In fact, they need to flush HIPPA which is just stupid. > > > > Ruben > > Privacy v. Responsibility. Geez, what a hot button topic. Let me confine > my comments to this: > > If we return responsibility for ensuring the privacy of medical records to > the individual, how would you handle a patient who hands you a "Personal > Copyright and License" which ONLY permits YOU to use and store the > information needed for treatment but not to disclose it without written > permission? > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd_______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
