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Rules Committee advances ordinance to designate San Francisco a HIPAA hybrid entity
Summary
The Rules Committee moved to forward an ordinance directing the city administrator to identify and list city departments that would be covered as a HIPAA hybrid entity and to develop a citywide HIPAA compliance policy; the committee voted to forward the item to the full Board with a positive recommendation.
San Francisco's Rules Committee on Feb. 10 advanced an ordinance that would formally designate the City and County of San Francisco as a "hybrid entity" under the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
Emily Cohen of the mayor's office told the panel the ordinance is intended to clarify which city departments perform HIPAA-covered activities and therefore require HIPAA-level compliance. "The ordinance that we have before you today declares the city and county of San Francisco as a hybrid entity," Cohen said, adding the mayor's office worked with the comptroller, the city…
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