In another step towards modernizing the privacy rule designed to protect patient substance abuse records, the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ...
To protect patients seeking addiction treatment, the federal government passed strict regulations limiting the disclosure of substance abuse patient records. Substance abuse treatment programs must ...
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Both the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), weighing in on a February proposal by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ...
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mental Health America (MHA) and Netsmart today announced their support for legislation in Congress that would update decades-old 42 CFR Part 2 regulations to streamline ...
On November 17, 2016, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released the first report on substance use disorder (SUD) in the U.S. This landmark document described the tremendous toll of alcohol and drug use on ...
The regulation that has been modified - Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records, more commonly known as 42 CFR Part 2 – had mostly prohibited the sharing of patient records with ...
When a doctor sees a patient with a runny nose and body aches, the doctor may think it is a cold or the flu. For patients with substance use disorder (SUD), however, those symptoms can signal other ...
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The Department of Health and Human Services has announced proposed changes to federal regulations governing the confidentiality of patient records created by federally-assisted substance use disorder ...
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Dear Representatives Murphy and Blumenauer: The undersigned members of the Partnership to Amend 42 CFR Part 2 (Partnership) and additional stakeholder organizations applaud your leadership on the ...