Colorado Revocation of Authorization To Use or Disclose Protected Health Information
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Generally speaking, covered entities may disclose PHI to anyone a patient wants. They may also use or disclose PHI to notify a family member, personal representative, or someone responsible for the patient's care of the patient's location, general condition, or death.
Covered entities may disclose protected health information to law enforcement officials for law enforcement purposes under the following six circumstances, and subject to specified conditions: (1) as required by law (including court orders, court-ordered warrants, subpoenas) and administrative requests; (2) to identify
A covered entity is permitted, but not required, to use and disclose protected health information, without an individual's authorization, for the following purposes or situations: (1) To the Individual (unless required for access or accounting of disclosures); (2) Treatment, Payment, and Health Care Operations; (3)
There are a few scenarios where you can disclose PHI without patient consent: coroner's investigations, court litigation, reporting communicable diseases to a public health department, and reporting gunshot and knife wounds.
Under HIPAA, a covered entity provider can disclose PHI to another covered entity provider for the treatment activities of the recipient health care provider, without needing patient consent or authorization. (45 CFR 164.506(c)(2).)
According to the Privacy Rule, a covered entity may not use or disclose protected health information, except either: (1) as the Privacy Rule permits or requires; or (2) as the individual who is the subject of the information (or the individual's personal representative) authorizes in writing.
Health care providers may disclose the necessary protected health information to anyone who is in a position to prevent or lessen the threatened harm, including family, friends, caregivers, and law enforcement, without a patient's permission.
An authorization is a detailed document that gives covered entities permission to use protected health information for specified purposes, which are generally other than treatment, payment, or health care operations, or to disclose protected health information to a third party specified by the individual.
More generally, HIPAA allows the release of information without the patient's authorization when, in the medical care providers' best judgment, it is in the patient's interest. Despite this language, medical care providers are very reluctant to release information unless it is clearly allowed by HIPAA.
To public health authorities to prevent or control disease, disability or injury. To foreign government agencies upon direction of a public health authority. To individuals who may be at risk of disease. To family or others caring for an individual, including notifying the public.
