Does a vaccine passport violate HIPAA? Experts weigh in

Becker's Hospital Review ^ | March 31, 2021 | Hannah Mitchell

[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.

[greeneyes]

I have no doubt that it is a conspiracy — I just don’t take it upon myself to put labels on it.

People have brains, and I leave it up to them to read the facts and make their own conclusions.

Just the way I am. I state the facts, let the facts speak, and leave the editorials to others.

[DouglasKC]

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."

Okay, so they make you show your covid vaccine to get on the plane. Unless they take you in a private room there are others ALL around who are going to know whether or not you are vaccinated. Which means your health information was shared with others.

[logi_cal869]

You stated that twice.

You stated that twice.

But people are brainless today.

Yes, people are collectively brainless zombies motivated by emotional reaction. PJW really nailed it in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U77MA42hrHA

We are a minority.

[greeneyes]

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