Healthcare Risk Management interviewed Gunster Shareholder Bill Dillon in an article discussing the HHS Office for Civil Rights’ recent bulletin clarifying that covered entities are not permitted to use tracking technologies in a manner that would result in impermissible disclosures of protected health information (PHI).
Dillon points out that the use of such tracking tools and the risk of PHI transmission is likely news to risk managers and compliance officers. “Now that OCR has issued this bulletin, the onus is on covered entities to address the issue promptly,” he cautions.
Bill Dillon is the former managing shareholder of the firm’s Tallahassee office and is Board Certified by the Florida Bar as a specialist in the area of Health Care law. He is also certified by the Health Care Compliance Association in the area of corporate compliance (CHC) and the International Association of Privacy Professionals as an Information Privacy Professional for the U.S. Section (CIPP/US). Bill focuses his practice on assisting health care providers and entities to adhere to the complex regulatory requirements of the health care sector.
