HIPAA's Permissible Uses and Disclosures and Public Health Practice

About the Program
Whether it’s as a covered entity or a public health authority, public health departments encounter thorny HIPAA-permissible-use-and-disclosure questions daily. Such questions arise, for example, around when a health department that is a covered entity may use or disclose protected health information (PHI) for communicable disease investigations, research, or even emergency preparedness and response. Permissible use and disclosure questions also come to the surface when a public health department seeks to access public health data from HIPAA covered entities, such as in a hepatitis or food-borne illness outbreak investigation.

Join your fellow State and Local Privacy Officer Peer Group members June 14, 2023, 3-4 p.m. ET, for a discussion of the ins and outs of HIPAA’s permitted uses and disclosures and their application to public health practice.

Presenters and Moderator
The program will be presented by Network for Public Health Law attorneys Carrie Waggoner, Director, and Stephen Murphy, Deputy Director, Mid States Region, and moderated by Network attorney Chris Alibrandi O’Connor, Deputy