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Phone companies and phone manufacturers are not themselves subject to HIPAA, although they are subject to some other privacy laws. … privacy laws already bar it from doing so), or needs to tailor the content of its text messages such that HIPAA covered information is not disclosed. …

Is my understanding correct that HIPAA in the US defines the concept of Qualifying Life Events as a means to ensure employer sponsored health programs provide a Special Enrollment Period upon being provided … For instance, would an employer be in violation of HIPAA if they declared that medical coverage changes would not take effect from a special enrollment period until the first of the next month as opposed …

Privacy Issues While there are financial information privacy issues associated with this transaction, HIPAA, which covers medical records, normally wouldn't apply to a credit card payment that indicates …

Pre-HIPAA, the main issue was employer access to private medical data about employees using employer provided health insurance, which would have contractually waived the right to medical privacy. … Before employer provided health insurance was widespread, the harms that HIPAA sought to address which arose from widespread insurance company access to health records, weren't as much of a concern. …

HIPAA seems comparable but only applies to medical data, but is there anything more general than that? Not really, at least at the national level. … There are regulations related to health information (HIPAA), to educational records, to tax information, to census information, credit reporting agencies, and to banking records (as well, of course, as …

This is governed by the HIPAA Security Rule which was a regulation that the HIPAA statute required the Department of Health and Human Services to adopt. … . health care provider subject to HIPAA would have a foreign server), but the Rule does not require that a server be physically located in the United States. …