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20 Mar 2020, 12:04 pm by Patrick McDonnell
The order also delegates broad authority to the secretary of health and human services (HHS) to later employ certain powers of the DPA. [read post]
20 Mar 2020, 5:41 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  In contrast, CMSenforces MHPAEA and other applicable provisions of Title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act (PHS Act) with respect to non-federal governmental group health plans, such as plans for employees of state and local governments. [read post]
19 Mar 2020, 9:48 am
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,SECTION 1. [read post]
18 Mar 2020, 8:39 pm by Christopher McKinney
  This is true whether or not the work asked of the employee is listed in the employee's job description.As part of your pre-influenza, pandemic, or other public health emergency planning, you may want to consult your human resource specialists if you expect to assign employees work outside of their job description during a pandemic or other public health emergency. [read post]
18 Mar 2020, 12:36 pm by Elliot Setzer
A 100-page internal report for the Department of Health and Human Services warned last week that “the pandemic will last 18 months or longer and could include multiple waves of illness,” reports the New York Times. [read post]
18 Mar 2020, 5:00 am by Carrie Cordero, David Thaw
They range across financial regulatory agencies, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Federal Trade Commission and other sector-specific regulatory agencies. [read post]
17 Mar 2020, 6:34 pm by Inside Privacy
In a new post on the Covington Digital Health blog, our colleagues discuss two recent final rules aimed at improving patient access to electronic health information (EHI) and standardizing modes of exchange for EHI. [read post]
16 Mar 2020, 9:05 pm by Dan Flynn
Its title is the Humane Society of the United States v. [read post]
16 Mar 2020, 4:26 pm by Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Recently, a federal employee filed a whistleblower action claiming that the Department of Health and Human Services sent its employees to Travis and March Air Force Bases in California without proper protective gear or training regarding the appropriate safety measures to assist quarantined Americans evacuated from China after the start of the outbreak. [read post]
16 Mar 2020, 1:32 pm by Jennifer Papapanagiotou
The declaration gives Secretary Alex Azar of the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) the power to waive certain Federal requirements in Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP in order to address the outbreak. [read post]
16 Mar 2020, 12:43 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
For instance: Illness and other absences generally trigger added potential exposure for discrimination, retaliation, privacy and other employment claims and risks if not properly recognized and managed; The selection and implementation of workers to be affected by furloughs, layoffs and other workforce actions should be conducted carefully to manage potential Relatively small declines in the size of a business’ workforce can trigger pricing changes or even termination rights for vendors… [read post]
16 Mar 2020, 9:39 am by Elliot Setzer
The Department of Health and Human Services was hit with a cyberattack on Sunday night that appeared aimed at slowing down the department’s systems, writes Reuters. [read post]
16 Mar 2020, 8:06 am by Lynn Sessions and Benjamin Wells
The United States Department of Education (ED) Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO), on March 13, 2020, issued Frequently Asked Questions related to the serious novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that the world is now grappling with. [read post]
15 Mar 2020, 9:00 am by Dave Maass
Considering that this is branded as a public health crisis, one would assume schools would be forthcoming with data about vaping incidents on campuses to help inform policymakers. [read post]
15 Mar 2020, 9:00 am by Dave Maass
Considering that this is branded as a public health crisis, one would assume schools would be forthcoming with data about vaping incidents on campuses to help inform policymakers. [read post]
14 Mar 2020, 5:13 pm by INFORRM
Department of Health and Human Services also posted a bulletin to remind health-care workers that information about “an identifiable patient” may not be disclosed to the media or the public without “the patient’s written authorization” except in special circumstances. [read post]
14 Mar 2020, 5:18 am
—During fiscal year 2020, the Secretary of Agriculture may purchase commodities for emergency distribution in any area of the United States during a public health emergency designation. [read post]