Sentences with phrase «whether state health officials»

He says more research needs to be funded, and he questioned whether state health officials are doing enough.

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Board member Akshay Desai told state officials he wants to see any studies that show whether nutritional changes made in schools can indeed improve children's health.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued subpoenas Wednesday to investigate whether Allure Group misled health officials when to turn the Nostrand Ave. nursing home into luxury condos.

Often, records show state officials pursued or fixed the source of an odor, but not whether they tracked any possible health effects connected to the odors.

Agarwal says «fulfilling the mission» broadly would mean information from Zika diagnoses, for example, is flowing to the right public health official whether it's from patient - hospital encounters stored in a state health information exchange or a primary care setting when a patient presents for treatment or even when such cases are documented at a public health care service location.

The recent outbreaks of whooping cough in the state have prompted North Carolina health officials to make the vaccines against the disease available for free to anyone age 7 and older, regardless of whether they have health insurance.

Health officials in Washington State are testing children's blood for high levels of lead to determine whether a need exists for lead - intervention programs.

We clarify that if a situation fits one section of the rule (e.g., § 164.512 (j) on serious and imminent threats to health or safety), health plans and covered health care providers may disclose protected health information pursuant to that section, regardless of whether the disclosure also could be made pursuant to another section (e.g., § § 164.512 (f)(2) or 164.512 (f)(3), regarding disclosure of protected health information about suspects or victims to law enforcement officials), except as otherwise stated in the rule.

For the Department of State, however, the final rule provides a limited exemption that allows a component of the Department of State without an authorization to (1) use protected health information to make medical suitability determinations and (2) to disclose whether or not the individual was determined to be medically suitable to authorized officials in the Department of State for the purpose of a security clearance investigation conducted pursuant to Executive Order 10450 and 12698.

For example, the proposed rule did not state explicitly whether covered entities would have been allowed to initiate — in the absence of a request from law enforcement — disclosure of protected health information to law enforcement officials for the purpose of identifying a suspect, fugitive, material witness or missing person.

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