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County attorneys brief supervisors on HIPAA updates, reproductive-health privacy rule and planned risk analysis
Summary
County attorneys updated supervisors on an HHS final rule on reproductive-health privacy, ongoing HIPAA policy updates, and plans to move privacy functions to Human Resources and to conduct a county risk analysis; staff flagged a likely budget request next fiscal year for the risk analysis.
Assistant County Attorney Nathan Peters and First Assistant County Attorney Susie Nearing briefed the board on updates to the county’s HIPAA policy, a new federal final rule addressing reproductive-health privacy, and plans for a countywide risk analysis.
Peters said the 2024 federal rule broadly prohibits using or disclosing protected health information (PHI) to investigate or impose liability on individuals for seeking reproductive-health care; the…
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