Posted on 4/1/2021, 12:07:16 PM by ready2brd
To All Office Employees: Effective Tuesday, April 20, the Company’s office locations will return to full capacity operations, effectively ending remote work in connection with the Pandemic.
An e-mail was sent to you and all employees on March 17 and a subsequent e-mail reminder on Monday, March 22, regarding the Company’s requirement that all employees receive a COVID vaccination. As a reminder, we stated that all employees must be vaccinated as an ongoing condition of employment. So, you must be vaccinated as soon as possible. As a further reminder, please communicate your progress toward being vaccinated to in Human Resources
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To: ready2brd
I work for a state agency that oversees our insurance plan. HIPAA applies to me as much as it applies to a healthcare provider. HIPAA also applies to the insurance company.
I don’t know all the ins and outs of HIPAA with the current public health issue; I just know it’s different when it involves public health issues. Here’s an example of how PHI can be released without your consent:
Patient Y went to the Emergency Department at Local Hospital due to a severe laceration to the leg. While in the waiting area, Patient Y sits next to Patient Z. It is later confirmed that Patient Z has an airborne, communicable virus. Patient Y and other patients in the waiting area were potentially exposed.
Local law permits providers to notify individuals that may have been exposed to a communicable disease. Local Hospital may use PHI and certified health IT to identify patients who were in the waiting area and potentially exposed to the virus. Local Hospital may send notices to the exposed patients about their exposure based on 45 CFR 164.512(b)(1)(iv). Local Hospital must only use and disclose the minimum necessary PHI for the purpose of the notification of exposure to the communicable disease.
https://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/12072016_hipaa_and_public_health_fact_sheet.pdf
67 posted on 4/1/2021, 5:11:48 PM by Spirit of Liberty (Jesus said ‘I am the Light of the world’. ~ John 8:12)
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To: ready2brd
This is cut and pasted from a company email from my HR.
From Dr. Amanda Cohn. Chief Medical Officer of the National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC in Atlanta:
“Organizations, such as hospitals, with licensed products do have capability of asking their workers to get the vaccine. But in the setting of an EUA, patients and individuals will have the right to refuse the vaccine.”
71 posted on 4/1/2021, 6:27:39 PM by Mozzafiato
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3947085/posts?page=71#71