Makes me furious. My company as well put out a message today that they're going to begin pushing for people to take it. Ya know. . . "Don't do it just for your self, it's For the team."
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Seems a bit violative of hipaa
I work in a school. Hipaa
Do you have any further information where I can look to see in what way HIPAA protects the teachers? I'm seeing a lot of information about protecting students but just not much on teachers.
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-regulations/index.html
What Information is Protected
Protected Health Information. The Privacy Rule protects all "individually identifiable health information" held or transmitted by a covered entity or its business associate, in any form or media, whether electronic, paper, or oral. The Privacy Rule calls this information "protected health information (PHI)."12
“Individually identifiable health information” is information, including demographic data, that relates to:
**the individual’s past, present or future physical or mental health or condition, the provision of health care to the individual, or the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to the individual, and that identifies the individual or for which there is a reasonable basis to believe it can be used to identify the individual.13 Individually identifiable health information includes many common identifiers (e.g., name, address, birth date, Social Security Number). **
The Privacy Rule excludes from protected health information employment records that a covered entity maintains in its capacity as an employer and education and certain other records subject to, or defined in, **the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 20 U.S.C. §1232g. **
Future provision of health care to the individual: HIPAA violation.