The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is relaxing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy and security requirements for COVID-19 community-based testing sites to make it easier to collect patient data, Nextgov reports. The HHS Office for Civil Rights said in a notice other health care providers still have to fully comply with HIPAA. Meanwhile, the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information published guidance on data processing during the pandemic.
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