{"id":78,"date":"2020-02-22T07:34:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T12:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/blog\/target\/privacy-law-covering-most-medical-care-may-not-apply-in-schools\/"},"modified":"2020-02-22T07:34:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T12:34:09","slug":"privacy-law-covering-most-medical-care-may-not-apply-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/22\/privacy-law-covering-most-medical-care-may-not-apply-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy law covering most medical care may not apply in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Reuters Health)<\/em> &#8211; The privacy protections Americans have come to expect when it comes to their medical information may not always apply in school settings, a new report suggests.<\/p>\n<p>When a school nurse is involved in a student\u2019s medical care, information on that care may end up in the child\u2019s educational record &#8211; which is accessible without consent to school officials and parents, according to the report in Pediatrics.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that student healthcare provided by a school nurse can fall outside the privacy guarantees of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and instead be covered by another federal law, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).<\/p>\n<p>FERPA states, for example, that information in the student\u2019s file may be disclosed without consent to \u201cschool officials, including teachers, within the agency or institution whom the agency or institution has determined to have legitimate educational interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>[\u2026]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is an excerpt from a previously published article.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-teens-privacy\/privacy-law-covering-most-medical-care-may-not-apply-in-schools-idUSKBN2062W4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to view full original article at www.reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Reuters Health)<\/em> &#8211; The privacy protections Americans have come to expect when it comes to their medical information may not always apply in school settings, a new report suggests.<\/p>\n<p>When a school nurse is involved in a student\u2019s medical care, information on that care may end up in the child\u2019s educational record &#8211; which is accessible without consent to school officials and parents, according to the report in Pediatrics.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that student healthcare provided by a school nurse can fall outside the privacy guarantees of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and instead be covered by another federal law, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/22\/privacy-law-covering-most-medical-care-may-not-apply-in-schools\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[17,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}