HIPAA 2021 – What Can We Expect?
“… public health issues dominated 2020 and with the country’s attention focused on COVID-19 testing, status, transmission and care, HIPAA went mainstream. Health information became critical not only for health care providers, but for all manner of businesses, employers, property owners, and the national media. HIPAA – or more often than not ‘HIPPA’ – was frequently touted in the news and on social media as the reason why COVID-related information could or could not be shared. As we head into 2021 with the pandemic raging on, the vaccination program underway, and a new administration taking over, here is a look at what we expect for ‘HIPPA’ in 2021,” write Dianne J. Bourque, Ellen L. Janos and Michelle L. Caton Mintz’ Insights Center.
