The World Privacy Forum (WPF) submitted comments on an important Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that proposes modifications of the protection requirements for substance use disorder (SUD) treatmen...
September 2022 By Robert Gellman and Pam Dixon Download this Report Executive Summary This report suggests specific procedural and substantive ways that the Executive Branch can revise implementa...
https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2022/09/privacy-act-procedural-changes-reproductive-health/
WPF has urged HHS to clarify the intersection between HIPAA compliance and harms resulting from medical identity theft in its response to the Request for Information from the Office of Civil Rig...
One of the most common questions we receive is: what does HIPAA compliant mean? Well.. If a company or entity or health app is not covered by HIPAA, it may still say that it is “HIPAA compliant...
https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2022/05/hipaa-compliant-or-hipaa-covered/
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published its proposal regarding how employee vaccination information will be treated by employers. WPF's analysis has found a m...
https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2021/12/wpf-advises-osha-re-employee-vaccination-information/
In public testimony September 15, 2021, WPF’s Executive Director urged the Department of Health and Human Services National Vaccine Advisory Committee Committee to establish broadened protect...
WPF’s Executive Director spoke today before the US Center For Disease Control’s ACIP Committee regarding privacy protections for vaccine recipients’ data. WPF supported the CDC’s prohibit...
WPF filed comments today with the Department of Health and Human Services regarding an important Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that, if adopted, will bring substantial changes to patients’ elec...
https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2021/05/wpf-comments-on-hhs-proposal-to-change-hipaa/
This summer, the World Privacy Forum served as a member of the World Health Organization’s External Expert Group on Data Principles. We are pleased to announce that WHO has now published its up...
In response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a HIPAA waiver April 9, 2020 regarding Community Based Testing Sites, which waives e...