Sentences with phrase «imminent threat to public health»

Similarly, in situations involving a serious and imminent threat to public health or safety, law enforcement officials may be seeking protected health information from covered entities to locate a fugitive.

Calls involving wild or dangerous animals that present an imminent threat to public health or safety.

An animal control officer may impound any animal that constitutes a serious and imminent threat to public health and / or safety due to the likelihood of its escape from its restraint.

An «imminent threat to public health» was declared in Suffolk County by the state Department of Health after the discovery of mosquitoes carrying Eastern equine encephalitis virus, a rare but potentially fatal pathogen.

However, we continue to permit a covered entity to disclose protected health information to a health care Start Printed Page 82730provider in an emergency treatment situation if the restricted protected health information is needed to provide the emergency treatment or if the disclosure is necessary to avoid serious and imminent threats to public health and safety.

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Public Health Thank You Day 2013 honors all those health heroes who keep our drinking water safe and air clean, administer vaccines, track and investigate infections, educate residents with chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes, provide cancer screening services, administer pest control programs and protect us against imminent threats to our health such as influenza, foodborne illnesses and natural disaHealth Thank You Day 2013 honors all those health heroes who keep our drinking water safe and air clean, administer vaccines, track and investigate infections, educate residents with chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes, provide cancer screening services, administer pest control programs and protect us against imminent threats to our health such as influenza, foodborne illnesses and natural disahealth heroes who keep our drinking water safe and air clean, administer vaccines, track and investigate infections, educate residents with chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes, provide cancer screening services, administer pest control programs and protect us against imminent threats to our health such as influenza, foodborne illnesses and natural disahealth such as influenza, foodborne illnesses and natural disasters.

Professor Neil Ferguson, lead author of the research from the School of Public Health at Imperial, explained: «This study uses all available data to provide an understanding of how the disease will unfold - and allows us to gauge the threat in the imminent future.

Exhibit C is used to identify any property that may pose a threat of imminent and identifiable harm to public health or safety.

Animal control has the right to trap any cat it deems is a public threat to health and safety; if a «licensed veterinarian decides that the cat is too ill or injured or that it has an illness that presents an imminent danger to the public health or safety or to itself, the cat may be humanely euthanized».

While whistleblowers may have a legal right to report wrongdoings, including imminent health and safety threats or environmental crimes, to a «lawful authority,» going public is rarely, if ever, permitted.

(i)(A) Is necessary to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of a person or the public; and

For example, a disclosure under § 164.512 (j)(1)(i) to avert an imminent threat to safety is lawful only if made in the good faith belief that the disclosure is necessary to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of a person or the public, and to a person reasonably able to prevent or lessen the threat.

Some commenters suggested that the provision be further narrowed, for example, with language specifically identifying «imminent threats» and a «chain - of - command clearance process,» or by limiting permissible disclosures under this provision to «public health emergencies,» or «national emergencies.»

In the NPRM we proposed to allow covered entities to use or disclose protected health information without individual authorization — consistent with applicable law and ethics standards — based on a reasonable belief that use or disclosure of the protected health information was necessary to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to health or safety of an individual or of the public.

If this was done within the scope of a mandatory reporting law, it is legal to disclose PHI; under § 164.512 it is allowed, «to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of a person or the public».

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We do not give information about you to other government agencies, organisations or anyone else unless one of the following applies: • you have consented; • you'd expect us to or we have told you we will; • it is required or authorised by law; • it will prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to somebody's life or health; or • the disclosure is reasonably necessary for law enforcement or for the protection of public revenue