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Well, for years now student health services have debated which privacy rules apply to campus/student health services:  FERPA or HIPAA.  The U.S. Departments of Education and Health & Human Services have finally (12 years after the passage of HIPAA) issued joint guidelines.

http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/HIPAAFERPAjointguide.pdf

You might want to check this out and have your institution's privacy manager make sure that your campus-based EMS's policies and procedures regarding patient privacy are in compliance with the law.

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Mark Milliron, M.P.A., M.S., EMT
NCEMSF Board of Directors


Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:31 pm

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