Posted on 03/31/2021 7:09:09 PM PDT by buckalfa
HIPAA protects a patient's personal health information, leaving many concerned that a vaccine passport would violate those protections.
HIPAA is used to protect sensitive medical information but only applies to how physicians, hospitals and health insurers share a patient's information with third-party entities, according to a report by The Washington Post.
A vaccine card would qualify as protected health information, but an airline is not a healthcare provider. HIPAA also doesn't protect medical information that a patient shares about themselves.
An airline still has to follow state privacy and identity theft policies.
"Once they get the data, they have to protect it," Jeff Drummond, a healthcare regulatory lawyer who has been working with HIPAA for nearly 20 years, told Dallas-based WFAA. "They have to notify you if there's a breach, but other than that, that's the end of their obligation under either HIPAA or Texas state law."
"Just because you carry around some health information with you in the form of your vaccine card, that information doesn't bring all the HIPAA protections with it," Erin Fuse Brown, a law professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta, told WFAA.
Guess reading is not one of your strong points.
Where in any of my posts did I say I approve of any of this?
Unmentioned is “Why?”
Once vaccines are widely available, then anyone who wants vaccination can get it, and would thus be protected. Anyone who doesn’t want it is on his own.
What MEDICAL purpose would this “passport” serve?
Already here. My company set up the policy last month that getting the vaccine was a condition of employment. Everyone has to get the jab in the next couple of weeks, or have a sit down with HR
Yoy must have experience in health information management!
Wrong. Already a condition of employment at my work. Watch for airlines to require it by summer.
I don’t believe you
Company wide email went out a couple of weeks ago. All non-essential workers that were at home are called back to work, and have to provide proof of vaccination. I got my first jab a month ago, and get the second next week. I’m not going to stain my career and rock the boat. Only exclusions are true religious or medical exemptions, which have to be discussed with HR. I was a bit surprised. I should post the email with company info blacked out on FR
They are not allowed to do that.
It has not been approved by the FDA
About half health care workers are not getting it
Ok. Well, Stare agencies and private companies are doing it. There is a CO in NM suing over it, and I’m sure there will be more lawsuits. I would bet anything that all Heath are companies will require it once they can afford to lose employees
"Isn't this a HIPAA violation?"
Don't remember the thread and I noticed others started posting the same question at around the same time (I'm thinking we all had the same thought.)
This is absolutely a HIPAA violation. It was a rhetorical question and I'm glad to see it being discussed.
Yes, something I’d thought of myself.
Also, my employer has over 11,500 employees, so isn’t exactly a mom and pop. I’m sure that some people will fuss a bit, but if they sue, it’s uncharted waters. And career suicide
They have no legal right to ask for it, and you have every right to NOT COMPLY.
That's the piece that's missing in all this. None of us can be compelled to disclose medical status information to anyone, period. Each of us still maintains the Constitutional Right to be secure in our own persons (privacy) and to control our privacy. That's in the Fourth Amendment.
At least until pResident Xiden and the CCD (China Controlled Democrats) eliminate it.
Supporting Paragraph:
The idea that privacy means secrecy is too narrow even when we think only about personal information, like the contents of a journal. Suppose I give you my diary and urge you to read it. No one would think you are violating my privacy when you do so. The reason is that privacy is not about the information itself, no matter how personal it may be. Instead, this aspect of privacy – informational privacy – is about my right to control what other see, and in this example I have given you my permission.
Oh what does it matter?
No one complained when companies would not hire smokers.
Or required random drug tests as a condition of employment...
First they came for the Socialist...and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist.........
Then they came for me...
Freedom. It’s so fleeting. And disappearing right before our eyes.
And some Freepers are still saying don’t comply, don’t comply.
You work at the pleasure of the employer if they demand a vaccination shot, you have 2 choices. Get it or quit.
Now when it’s an increasing condition of employment, you had better have self-wealth, run you own business, or retire.
Those three do not apply to a vast number of Americans.
There was a trial balloon sent up requiring all unemployment insurance recipients to get vaccinated to keep getting benefits (part of being able to work requirement)
Under 21 U.S. Code § 360bbb–3 the Emergency Use Authorizations violate federal law.
"(c)Criteria for issuance of authorization The Secretary may issue an authorization under this section with respect to the emergency use of a product only if, after consultation with the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, the Director of the National Institutes of Health, and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (to the extent feasible and appropriate given the applicable circumstances described in subsection (b)(1)), the Secretary concludes—
[snip]
"(3)that there is no adequate, approved, and available alternative to the product for diagnosing, preventing, or treating such disease or condition;
I'm not the first to cite that anywhere, probably here as well. But I frame it as a conspiracy and doctors are complicit, just as they've been for decades on numerous issues, including Oxy (one of the latest preceding the 'virus crisis').
It’s worse than that. For the record:
Under 21 U.S. Code § 360bbb–3 the Emergency Use Authorizations violate federal law.
“(c)Criteria for issuance of authorization The Secretary may issue an authorization under this section with respect to the emergency use of a product only if, after consultation with the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, the Director of the National Institutes of Health, and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (to the extent feasible and appropriate given the applicable circumstances described in subsection (b)(1)), the Secretary concludes—
[snip]
“(3)that there is no adequate, approved, and available alternative to the product for diagnosing, preventing, or treating such disease or condition;
I’m not the first to cite that anywhere, probably here as well. But I frame it as a conspiracy and doctors are complicit, just as they’ve been for decades on numerous issues, including Oxy (one of the latest preceding the ‘virus crisis’).
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That’s actually the same information I referred to which had already been posted several places. I cited the US Code which makes it illegal, a violation of the Nuremburg Protocols, and that EUA depends on having no other therapy available- I noted that was the reason they would not recognize the benefit of HCQ or ivermectin.
I simply did not label it as conspiracy - I basically give the facts, let the facts speak, and leave such conclusions up to whoever reads what I wrote.
I may have read what you posted prior, which dovetailed with my own research.
I do frame it as a conspiracy after expending thousands of hours to research my books and continually finding what is known today as a corrupt medical establishment after over a century of disservice to the American public.
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