Common Core and HIPAA

http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/coveredentities/hipaaferpajointguide.pdf From HHS website, your students health records aren’t protected by HIPAA.  They are considered educational records and NOT protected. 3. Does FERPA or HIPAA apply to elementary or secondary school student health records maintained by a health care provider that is not employed by a school?  If a person or entity acting on behalf […]

Common Core violates HIPAA laws!

An email from a REAL parent: At my child’s school last week a PE teacher sent home a form asking for the personal medical information of my child, his siblings, his parents and grandparents, including (if deceased) the date and cause of death for everything from alcoholism and drug addiction to cancer and diabetes to heart disease […]