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How you access health care should not make you a target for discrimination. HHS stands with patients and providers in protecting #HIPAA privacy rights and reproductive health care information. Read our new guidance:

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HHS Issues Guidance to Protect Patient Privacy in Wake of Supreme Court Decision on Roe

President Biden and HHS Secretary Becerra called on HHS agencies to take action to protect access to sexual and reproductive health care.

10:06 PM · Jun 29, 2022

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at least one part of the Biden administration is doing something. About to be a whole lotta people spelling #HIPAA incorrectly.

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Glad to see this action is being taken ❤️‍🩹 A patient’s right to privacy is incredibly important, and nothing should ever be allowed to change that 😔

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- Will similar guidance be coming out from #HHS,

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on potential implications under the #InformationBlocking regulations? What will happen if an actor refuses to share reproductive EHI in situations were #HIPAA and other laws permit the disclosure?

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But pain patients in this country are being treated as criminals and denied PROPER pain care!

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