Vaccination status is not considered HIPAA protected, just confidential. I’m a project manager at my company managing the internal development of a vaccine/testing tracking software, we have had this conversation with our very competent legal department and determined that those responsible for maintaining the records do not need to be HIPAA trained because it is not considered HIPAA protected information.
I get the vaccine status piece, I still disagree with it considering how invasive it is. If I were to have signed the medical exemption I would have had to allow them access to my complete medical history "for covid purposes". I invoked religious exemption. But on calls, I will have people say "so and so is out, they have COVID", like it's the hot gossip around the water cooler. These are director+ level people in this company passing this information around to anyone that wants to listen. HR is part of the problem as they're in on the conversations as well... Worst part, we have weekly meetings about how blacks don't get good medical care, stop hating asians, and you're kind of a dick because you're white (I'm paraphrasing). But I don't think I'm exaggerating because I spent 4 hours in training to do a virtual tour of black oppression...
I'm not sure the distinction between confidential and HIPAA. I work in health information. Your medical information is confidential by nature as per HIPAA. If they're trying to say it's not protected information under the law, it sounds like TPTB are going around the privacy law for this particular issue. It's bs.
Vaccination status is not considered HIPAA protected, just confidential. I’m a project manager at my company managing the internal development of a vaccine/testing tracking software, we have had this conversation with our very competent legal department and determined that those responsible for maintaining the records do not need to be HIPAA trained because it is not considered HIPAA protected information.
I get the vaccine status piece, I still disagree with it considering how invasive it is. If I were to have signed the medical exemption I would have had to allow them access to my complete medical history "for covid purposes". I invoked religious exemption. But on calls, I will have people say "so and so is out, they have COVID", like it's the hot gossip around the water cooler. These are director+ level people in this company passing this information around to anyone that wants to listen. HR is part of the problem as they're in on the conversations as well... Worst part, we have weekly meetings about how blacks don't get good medical care, stop hating asians, and you're kind of a dick because you're white (I'm paraphrasing). But I don't think I'm exaggerating because I spent 4 hours in training to do a virtual tour of black oppression...
I'm not sure the distinction between confidential and HIPAA. I work in health information. Your medical information is confidential by nature as per HIPAA. If they're trying to say it's not protected information under the law, it sounds like TPTB are going around the privacy law for this particular issue. It's bs.
1..never trust lawyers..they have zero honor.