Public Health Activities definition

Public Health Activities means actions taken by a participant in its capacity as a public health authority under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or as required or permitted by other federal or state law.
Public Health Activities means an access, use, or disclosure permitted under the HIPAA Regulations and any other Applicable Law for public health activities and purposes, including an access, use, or disclosure permitted under 45 C.F.R. part 164.512(b) and 45 C.F.R. part 164.514(e). Public Health Activities excludes activities related to oversight or enforcement of laws, regulations, or rules by Governmental Participants.
Public Health Activities means an access, use or disclosure permitted under the HIPAA Regulations and any other Applicable Law for public health activities and purposes, including an access, use or disclosure permitted under 45 C.F.R. § 164.512(b) and 45 C.F.R. § 164.514(e). Public Health Activities excludes the following oversight activities: audits; civil, administrative or criminal investigations; inspections; licensure or disciplinary actions; and civil, administrative or criminal proceedings or actions other than enforcement activities by a county health officer that are authorized under Cal. Health & Safety Code § 101030.

Examples of Public Health Activities in a sentence

  • CyncHealth may share Participant’s Shared Information for Public Health Activities or for Public Purposes, including but not limited to, immunizations, electronic lab results (ELR), syndromic surveillance, and public health registries.

  • Alerts and Notifications: CyncHealth will provide event notifications to Participants to facilitate treatment, payment, healthcare operations, and Public Health Activities.


More Definitions of Public Health Activities

Public Health Activities. We may disclose your information for public health activities such as to report the abuse or neglect of children, elders and dependent adults; Abuse, Neglect or Domestic Violence: We may disclose your information when notifying the appropriate government authority if we believe you have been the victim of abuse, neglect or domestic violence. We will only make this disclosure if you agree or when required or authorized by law. San Diego County CoC Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)
Public Health Activities means actions undertaken by the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services in its capacity as a public health authority under HIPAA and/or as required or permitted by other federal or state law. Public Health Activities includes sharing Participant’s Shared Information for public health purposes, including, but not limited to, immunizations, electronic lab results (ELR), syndromic surveillance, and public health registries. “Public Purpose” is a disclosure of Health Information to public health officials, government agencies or emergency medical services and others when required by Applicable Law or when permitted by Applicable Law and consistent with the mission of CyncHealth to advance the health and wellness of patients by deploying health information technology solutions adopted through cooperation and collaboration and to enable the healthcare community to appropriately and securely share data, facilitate and integrate care, create efficiencies, and improve outcomes, provided that any disclosure of Health Information that is permitted, rather than required, by Applicable Law to a recipient other than public health officials, government agencies or emergency medical services shall not be a Public Purpose unless it is approved by the CyncHealth Data Governance Committee.
Public Health Activities. We may disclose your information for public health activities such as to report the abuse or neglect of children, elders and dependent adults; Abuse, Neglect or Domestic Violence: We may disclose your information when notifying the appropriate government authority if we believe you have been the victim of abuse, neglect or domestic violence. We will only make this disclosure if you agree or when required or authorized by law. Oversight Activities: We may disclose your information to a federal oversight agency, such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development, for activities authorized by law. These oversight activities are necessary for the government to monitor government service programs, and compliance with civil rights laws. Court Orders and Subpoenas: If you are involved in a lawsuit or a dispute, we may disclose your information in response to a court or administrative order. We may also disclose your information in response to a subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process by someone else involved in a dispute. Law Enforcement: We may disclose your information if asked to do so by law enforcement officials in any of the following circumstances:  In response to a court order, subpoena, warrant, summons or similar process;  About the victim of a crime if, under certain limited circumstances, we are unable to obtain the person’s agreement; San Diego County CoC Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)
Public Health Activities. We may disclose your information for public health activities such as to report the abuse or neglect of children, elders, and dependent adults. Abuse, Neglect, or Domestic Violence: We may disclose your information when notifying the appropriate government authority if we believe you have been the victim of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence. We will only make this disclosure if you agree or when required or authorized by law. Oversight Activities: We may disclose your information to an oversight agency, such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) or the State of California, for activities authorized by law. These oversight activities are necessary for the government to monitor government service programs, and compliance with civil rights laws. OTHER USES OF YOUR INFORMATION Other uses and disclosures of your information not covered by this Notice or the laws that apply to us will be made only with your written authorization. If you provide us authorization to disclose your information, you may revoke that authorization, in writing, at any time. If you revoke your authorization, we will no longer use or disclose your information for the reasons covered by the authorization, except that, we are unable to take back any disclosures we have already made when the authorization was in effect, and we are required to retain our records of the services that we provided to you. YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING INFORMATION ABOUT YOU
Public Health Activities means public health activities and purposes as defined in HIPAA (45 CFR 164.512(b)).
Public Health Activities shall have the meaning set forth in 45 CFR 164.512(b), including, without limitation: (i) a public health authority that is authorized by law to collect or receive Protected Health Information for the purpose of preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability, including but not limited to, the reporting of disease, injury, vital events such as birth and death, and the conduct of public surveillance or public health investigations; (ii) a public health authority or other appropriate government authority authorized by law to receive reports of child abuse or neglect; (iii) a person subject to the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") with respect to an FDA-regulated product or activity for which that person has responsibility; or (iv) a public health authority that is authorized by law to notify a person who may have been exposed to a communicable disease or may otherwise be at risk of contracting or spreading a disease or condition.
Public Health Activities means actions undertaken by the Iowa Department of Public Health in its capacity as a public health authority under HIPAA and/or as required or permitted by other federal or state law. Security Incident means the attempted or successful unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification, or destruction of information while in transit via the IHIN, or while being stored within IHIN systems, or interference with IHIN operations. Services means the type of data transactions facilitated through IHIN. Treatment, Payment and Healthcare Operations (TPO) means as such terms are defined in the Privacy Rule. Workforce means employees, volunteers, trainees, and other persons or entities whose conduct, in the performance of work for a covered entity, is under the control of such entity, whether or not they are paid by the covered entity.