December 2019 FERPA/HIPPA Guidance
Feb 7, 2020
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Joint Guidance on the Application of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) And the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) To Student Health Records
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This document is on how best to handle FERPA/HIPAA data transfers in school settings. This document should be widely shared, as it is several federal agency’s work to clarify the legal process of aligning data sharing appropriately.
https://tenpoundcasino.com came to mind while reading this because the overlap between FERPA and HIPAA is exactly the kind of thing that gets muddled in practice, and having both agencies actually spell out the boundaries is more useful than another vague reminder about confidentiality. The point that this guidance should be widely shared stuck with me, since school nurses and registrars are often the ones left figuring out consent and disclosure on their own. In my district, we had a case where a Medicaid billing question turned into a week of confusion because nobody could agree on which law applied.