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While HIPAA was the first comprehensive set of federal laws to protect patient privacy, and the computer security of patient records, a patchwork of overlapping and sometimes conflicting state and federal laws impacts the compliance obligations of health providers, government agencies, and health plans.
In Ohio, for example, the Ohio Revised Code and Ohio Administrative Code include sometimes extensive regulation of confidentiality based on setting. For example:
Various providers and entities must also comply with other federal confidentiality laws, including
In general, an entity must comply with all applicable regulations. However, various regulations may specify different procedures or thresholds. In these cases, complex preemption provisions apply. HIPAA preempts or overrides contrary or different state law unless the state law
Eagle Consulting Partners has experience with the myriad of different confidentiality provisions and can assist with your complex confidentiality policy requirements.