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Following a Notice of Enforcement Discretion (“NED”) issued earlier this year (discussed in our previous article here), the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) has issued detailed guidance addressing the sharing of protected health information (“PHI”) through health information exchanges (“HIEs”) for public health activities of a public health authority (“PHA”). An HIE enables participants... READ MORE

On August 26, 2019, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (“SAMHSA”) issued two Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) proposing changes to the Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records at Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 2 (“Part 2”). Part 2 is a federal privacy law that protects substance... READ MORE