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FAQs on Telehealth and HIPAA During the COVID-19 Nationwide Public Health Emergency
From the Document: "The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) defines telehealth as the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support and promote long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, and public health and health administration. Technologies include videoconferencing, the internet, store-and-forward imaging, streaming media, and landline and wireless communications. Telehealth services may be provided, for example, through audio, text messaging, or video communication technology, including videoconferencing software. For purposes of reimbursement, certain payors, including Medicare and Medicaid, may impose restrictions on the types of technologies that can be used. Those restrictions do not limit the scope of the HIPAA [Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act] Notification of Enforcement Discretion regarding COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] and remote telehealth communications."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office for Civil Rights
2020?
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Notification of Enforcement Discretion Under HIPAA to Allow Uses and Disclosures of Protected Health Information by Business Associates for Public Health and Health Oversight Activities in Response to COVID-19
From the Summary: "This notification is to inform the public that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is exercising its discretion in how it applies the Privacy Rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Current regulations allow a HIPAA business associate to use and disclose protected health information for public health and health oversight purposes only if expressly permitted by its business associate agreement with a HIPAA covered entity. As a matter of enforcement discretion, effective immediately, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will exercise its enforcement discretion and will not impose potential penalties for violations of certain provisions of the HIPAA Privacy Rule against covered health care providers or their business associates for uses and disclosures of protected health information by business associates for public health and health oversight activities during the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] nationwide public health emergency."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office for Civil Rights
2020?
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Guidance on Covered Health Care Providers and Restrictions on Media Access to Protected Health Information About Individuals in Their Facilities
From the Document: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] public health emergency does not alter the HIPAA [Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act] Privacy Rule's existing restrictions on disclosures of protected health information (PHI) to the media. As explained in prior guidance, HIPAA does not permit covered health care providers to give the media, including film crews, access to any areas of their facilities where patients' PHI will be accessible in any form (e.g., written, electronic, oral, or other visual or audio form), without first obtaining a written HIPAA authorization from each patient whose PHI would be accessible to the media. Additionally, covered health care providers may not require a patient to sign a HIPAA authorization as a condition of receiving treatment."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office for Civil Rights
2020?
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HHS Initiatives to Address the Disparate Impact of COVID-19 on African Americans and Other Racial and Ethnic Minorities
From the Document: "PRESIDENT TRUMP IS COMMITTED to equipping racial, ethnic, and underserved communities with the healthcare resources needed to combat the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic. The information below outlines some of the immediate steps underway to improve prevention, testing, and treatment of COVID-19 in minority populations and reduce racial and ethnic disparities. The Administration recognizes that effectively addressing the underlying issue of overall poorer health status in some racial, ethnic, and other underserved communities requires both short- and long-term strategies. Broader initiatives that address both economic opportunity and healthcare disparities are critical and the Administration has multiple such initiatives underway, including the creation of Opportunity Zones, the White House Council on Eliminating Barriers to Affordable Housing, and HHS's targeted efforts on chronic underlying health conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, maternal morbidity, and tobacco use, all of which are more prevalent among some minorities. This fact sheet is focused on the immediate steps the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has taken to address the disparate impact of COVID-19 on African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020?
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Characteristics of the U.S. Nursing Workforce with Patient Care Responsibilities: Resources for Epidemic and Pandemic Response
From the Executive Summary: "This report examines the composition of the United States nursing workforce, with a particular focus on nurses with direct patient care responsibilities, in order to provide data on nurses who may be best positioned to meet the nation's immediate needs during a response to an infectious disease outbreak. Analyzing nursing workforce data through the lenses of nursing licensure, specialties, level of care, and geographic locations may inform ways to strengthen strategic efforts for the mobilization of healthcare workers during any epidemic or pandemic in the United States."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services; United States. Health Resources and Services Administration; National Center for Health Workforce Analysis (U.S.)
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Alabama Testing Plan
From the Document: "In anticipation of the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) accommodating anticipated increased demands for SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] testing, the Bureau of Clinical Laboratories (BCL) surveyed testing laboratories throughout Alabama to determine SARS-CoV-2 testing volume, platforms, capacity and barriers in April 2020. Continuing capturing of this information is allowing the BCL to strategically determine specimen distribution based on available medium to high throughput testing platforms at the hospital, research, and commercial laboratories surveyed in efforts to achieve a minimum of 2% monthly testing of the state's population."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: New Mexico Testing Plan
From the Document: "This submission outlines New Mexico's testing accomplishments and plans for May and June 2020 and will be updated to incorporate additional plans for July-December 2020. In order to perform surveillance and epidemiologic analyses aimed at decreasing the incidence and prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] infection in New Mexico and informing ongoing response efforts, New Mexico has developed a testing plan that will: (1) build a sustainable testing capability for both nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT) and serum antibody testing (antibody testing); (2) implement robust testing and surveillance in diverse urban, rural and tribal communities that prioritize New Mexico populations most vulnerable to COVID19 [coronavirus disease 2019]; and (3) monitor the disease trajectory and provide data and modeling to provide ongoing data and feedback to enable New Mexico to contain the virus until a vaccine is widely distributed. New Mexico's testing plan is tied directly to the state's work to dramatically increase its case investigation, contact tracing and containment capabilities. Effective early identification of cases on a population basis will allow New Mexico to further open our economy and society while protecting the population from the threat of continuing expansion of SARS-CoV-2 infection."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: North Carolina Testing Plan
From the Document: "North Carolina's coordinated testing action plan is a data-driven approach that (1) supports individuals with suspected disease (2) supports proactive management of populations at high risk for infection, and (3) promotes health equity for historically marginalized populations. For May and June, our coordinated testing strategy aim to test at least 2% of North Carolina's population (~210,000 per month) through testing anyone with symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] and close contacts of known positive cases, regardless of symptoms. As we continue to increase testing for subsequent months, North Carolina will implement a 'bottom-up' approach that uses an estimated daily testing threshold which factors (1) testing estimates by calculating the approximate size of testing cohorts of interest in prioritized populations (2) associated risk, and (3) frequency of testing. As we refine our strategy, additional federal financial and resource support are needed to achieve our increased testing goals."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: New York Testing Plan
From the Document: "The aim of the grant is to increase diagnostic testing capacity to a minimum of 220,000 tests/month. NYS [New York State] is aiming to test 5% of the population (excluding NYC) with diagnostic assays (550,000 monthly) and we plan to at least maintain, if not increase, that level using multiple approaches."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Wyoming Testing Plan
From the Document: "The State of Wyoming faces unique challenges in terms of testing capacity for SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2]. There is only one laboratory, the Wyoming Public Health Laboratory (WPHL), that has the capacity, infrastructure, and expertise in performing complex (non-rapid) SARS-CoV-2 testing. As such, the Wyoming Department of Health's approach to testing 2% of the state's population monthly through a combination of approaches, including: [1] Expansion of testing capacity at the WPHL through procurement of high-throughput instrumentation and hiring of laboratory personnel; [2] Expansion of rapid testing capacity at laboratories across the state of Wyoming through purchasing of equipment or allocating testing supplies and specimen collection supplies; [3] Contracting with private reference laboratories to provide testing."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: North Dakota Testing Plan
From the Document: "The North Dakota Department of Health (NDDoH) has already surpassed the goal of testing 2% of its population each month. In May, the NDDoH is supporting PCR [polymerase chain reaction] testing of 2,500 people per day, which would be 75,000 people (10% of the population). The NDDoH plans to expand this testing to 8,000 tests (diagnostic and serology) per day or 248,000 tests per month (33% of the population) between diagnostic and serology."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Oklahoma Testing Plan
From the Document: "Pursuant to guidelines provided by the Commissioner of Health in response to the Governor, Oklahoma has set a goal to test 90,000 people each month, or 2.25% of the state's population, for SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2]."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Iowa Testing Plan
From the Document: "Testing is a key component for Iowa's plan to recover from the pandemic. Iowa has strived to increase testing capacity since the pandemic arrived here in February 2020. Supply shortages from multiple manufacturers has forced the lab to be able to test for SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] on multiple platforms. The State Hygienic Laboratory (SHL) provides approximately 50% of all the testing performed in Iowa. At this point approximately, 1 in 32 Iowans have been tested and SHL has performed over 45,000 tests. To reach a goal of at least 66,000 tests performed each month by SHL and ramping up to 99,000 tests performed each month, SHL will need to add staff, supplies and equipment and to restructure where testing is performed to meet the needs of Iowa."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: West Virginia Testing Plan
From the Document: "The State of West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) is already testing a minimum of 2% of West Virginia's population for SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] each month, and will maximize the use of testing platforms, particularly those that are high throughput, across the state to reach higher targets by prioritizing target populations."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Virginia Testing Plan
From the Document: "VDH's [Virginia Department of Health] overarching strategy will include setting goals for testing, establishing testing targets, identifying private sector barriers, and initiating testing priorities and strategies to enhance detection of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] across Virginia. Primary goals of the VDH testing strategy include: increase containment activities as a result of reopening, expand testing to support identification of cases and contacts including those with mild and asymptomatic presentations, and testing more aggressively where increased burden or high risk of transmission exist (e.g. LTCFs [long-term care facilities], congregate settings, jails, schools)."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Washington Testing Plan
From the Document: "The State of Washington has approximately 7.6M residents. The priorities for testing are tiered and range from testing persons who are symptomatic, contacts of persons testing positive, persons in congregate settings where there has been one or more positive cases, testing of asymptomatic groups at highest risk of severe illness (e.g. those in long term care settings), and essential workers, including: first responders, health care workers, agricultural workers, and grocery store workers. It is also a priority for the state to work with stakeholders and community members to effectively outreach to and test traditionally marginalized groups, including but not limited to: people experiencing homelessness, people of color, members of tribal nations, Latinx people and those with disabilities. To meet a minimum of testing 2% of the population monthly, 5,000 persons need to be tested daily. Testing numbers in Washington have slowly increased as specimen collection supplies and PPE [personal protective equipment] have become more available."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Texas Testing Plan
From the Document: "The State of Texas has expanded efforts to meet the federal expectation of testing two percent of the state's population per month, or 20,000 per day. The State goal is to achieve a testing volume of 30,000 tests per day for diagnostic testing as we enter flu season. The overall goals of the testing strategy include: 1. Diagnose disease for isolation and tracing; 2. Respond rapidly to disease outbreaks; 3. Screen vulnerable populations; 4. Create a network for continued surveillance and predictive modeling; 5. Allow the academic study of the disease."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Wisconsin Testing Plan
From the Document: "Wisconsin's testing strategy is that all Wisconsinites who need a COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] test should have access to a test. The goal is to establish a sustainable testing infrastructure within all Wisconsin communities, sufficient to ensure all persons who are symptomatic have timely access to testing. It should build and support local capacity to ensure effective and timely public health investigations and ensure that individuals who test positive have the appropriate supports for safe isolation. Particularly as Wisconsin reopens, we anticipate a higher rate of infection and project a demand for more testing. This will allow individuals who are infected and contagious to isolate. Testing is provided free of charge to all individuals. In addition to individuals experiencing any symptom of COVID-19, even mild symptoms, DHS encourages testing for some individuals without symptoms who are prioritized by health departments or clinicians, for any reason, including: public health monitoring, sentinel surveillance, or screening of other asymptomatic individuals according to state and local plans."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Vermont Testing Plan
From the Document: "The Vermont Department of Health Laboratory (VDHL) is utilizing the ThermoFisher KingFisher Flex testing platform for SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] testing. [...] The State of Vermont has a goal of conducting 7,500 tests per week (up from 4,000 tests a week today) to achieve the 152 tests per 100,000 recommendation from the Harvard Institute. This will greatly exceed the goal set by the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] of testing at least 2% of the population each month."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: USVI Testing Plan
From the Document: "Due to the relatively small population base, approximately 105,000 persons, all symptomatic cases and their contacts have been able to be tested with support from CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]. More recently this is entirewly [sic] being conducted locally. These supplies have been difficult to obtain but the DOH [Department of Health] has 5000 tests currently on hand and will work closely with Hologic and the Federal Government to procure additional supplies as warranted by testing demand. At current testing rates these supplies are likely to last up to 90 days. The expected testing demand in USVI [U.S. Virgin Islands] to maintain testing of all symptomatic cases and contacts is extremely low in comparison to other jurisdictions. The DOH also has the capacity to perform Hologic Fusion testing, which has a lower user base nationally, and could provide for contingency testing if those supplies become available. These have been purchased but the Territory has never been allocated these resources."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: RMI Testing Plan
From the Document: "The population of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) is distributed among 29 Atolls with the majority (~27,000) in the Capital City on Majuro Atoll and another 10,000 in Ebeye in Kwajalein Atoll with the remainder (~8,000) spread throughout the far-flung smaller atolls. The predominant race/ethnicity is Marshallese (95%) with some other Asian/Pacific Islanders (Chinese, Kiribati, etc) and about 2% Caucasians (US, Australia, etc). Thus most of the population is considered 'at risk', especially because the prevalence of diabetes mellitus is 25%. SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] testing is available in the two cities, Majuro and Ebeye. Currently there are no cases of SARS-CoV-2 detected in RMI."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Utah Testing Plan
From the Document: "Since mid-March, the public health laboratory, the laboratory for the largest hospital system in the state (Intermountain Healthcare Central Laboratory {IHC}), and ARUP [Associated Regional and University Pathologists, Inc.], a national commercial laboratory located in the state, have met three days a week to discuss instrumentation, testing platforms, and plans to expand capacity. Through these efforts and those of other high-throughput laboratories in the state, we have a state capacity to perform up to 9,000 tests per day."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: California Testing Plan
From the Document: "California (CA) has a multi-pronged approach to increasing availability and access for SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] testing. Since late March, daily volumes of PCR [polymerase chain reaction] testing in CA have increased from 2,000 tests/day to a current peak of ~67,000 tests/day with capacity to test 4-5% of the overall population monthly. Initiatives are in place to further expand testing volumes to support reopening. Maintaining and expanding capacity for testing requires resources, leadership, and active collaboration across stakeholders."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Arizona Testing Plan
From the Document: "The Arizona Department of Health Services' (ADHS) plan to expand COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] testing is a multi-tiered approach leveraging public and private partnerships. The plan has four core strategies in various stages of implementation: Strategy 1: Arizona Testing Blitz; Strategy 2: Increased testing of vulnerable adults in congregate settings; Strategy 3: Increased testing at additional community sites (e.g. pharmacies, urgent cares, community health centers); Strategy 4: Contracting with complex laboratories to increase targeted testing of healthcare workers, first responders, university students and staff, and other critical infrastructure personnel; Strategy 5: Increased testing in laboratories with unutilized or underutilized instrumentation to support COVID-19 testing."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Colorado Testing Plan
From the Document: "In order to contain the spread of the virus and stop future outbreaks, based on public health guidance, Colorado plans to maintain a 1 positive to 10 negative diagnostic test ratio over a rolling 7 day period by July 1. This ratio allows for flexibility and scaling based on current circumstances. Until that target is met, Colorado's plan is to scale up testing to 10,000/day between our State Public Health Laboratory (State Lab) and commercial labs. As the flu season in the fall and winter approach Colorado plans to scale up testing in excess of 17,000 tests per day. Due to supply constraints to date (reagents and swabs), Colorado has been unable to meet these goals, though we are close to being able to test approximately 2% of our population per month. Over the last 2 weeks, Colorado has run 3000-5000 tests per day."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Connecticut Testing Plan
From the Document: "The State of Connecticut has developed an adaptive, phased strategy to scale and implement testing to safeguard our community and fight COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] in 4 phases. Each phase will coincide with our plans for progressive reopening of the state. Each phase has distinct goals and critical populations we aim to address as we ramp-up capacity. We will complement this widespread and ongoing COVID-19 RT-PCR [real time polymerase chain reaction] testing with point prevalence testing in nursing homes, assisted living and other congregate settings."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Arkansas Testing Plan
From the Document: "The current goal for SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] testing of the state of Arkansas' population has been established at benchmark of a 2%. This goal has been met using the Arkansas Department of Health Public Health Laboratory's (ADH PHLs) currently available, albeit, limited testing capacity in combination with commercial and academic resources. Current ADH PHL testing capacity is based on semi-automated methodology that is labor-intensive and time consuming based on a combination of manual and automated nucleic acid extraction and nucleic acid amplification using SARS-CoV-2 detection methodology developed and released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: American Samoa Testing Plan
From the Document: "American Samoa is the only territory of the United States south of the equator. Currently, the main health issue is related to chronic diseases with an increase in the prevalence of obesity. This upsurge in obesity is associated with a number of conditions such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes, arthritis, gout and various forms of cancer, conditions that have shown to increase risk of severe manifestation symptoms of COVID 19 [coronavirus disease 2019] and death. Fortunately, American Samoa currently does NOT have any confirmed cases of COVID 19. As of May 28, 2020, a total of 208 individuals have been tested since March 14, and all have tested negative."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Delaware Testing Plan
From the Document: "Delaware's statewide program - which will allow for 80,000 tests in Delaware monthly - will be implemented in partnership with the Division of Public Health (DPH), the Delaware Emergency Management Agency (DEMA), Delaware hospital systems, primary care physicians, Federally Qualified Health Centers, pharmacies, and community organizations. Delaware's new testing program is based on guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The State of Delaware will prioritize testing under the new statewide program for: [1] Any symptomatic individual. [2] Anyone with known exposure to COVID-19. [3] Vulnerable Delaware populations, including elderly Delawareans and members of low-income communities. [4] Certain front-line essential workers."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Chicago Testing Plan
From the Document: "The State of Illinois has publicly committed to ramping up to 30,000 tests per day in the effort to continue the fight against COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]. Chicago has established the minimum goal of testing 5% of Chicago residents monthly (4,500 tests daily) as one of the criteria to enable the gradual, phased reopening of the economy, with the goal of increasing to 10,000 tests per day in the effort to continue the fight against COVID-19. CDPH [Chicago Department of Public Health] is committed to ensuring testing is accessible for all Chicago residents with symptoms of COVID-19; available by increasing specimen collection and testing supplies and building capacity in clinical settings; adaptable to provide testing in affected communities based on evolving epidemiology. In addition to leveraging robust testing at the IL Department of Health's State Laboratory, CDPH plans to make testing widely available by partnering closely with academic hospital laboratories, federally qualified health centers, and other outpatient settings. The proposed implementation plan aims to leverage clinical and laboratory infrastructure to significantly improve both testing capacity and reporting for adequate support of case identification, contact tracing and surveillance."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
