Mission Statement
Overview
Our Mission: to foster innovative solutions that promote integrity and safeguard trust.
The objective of Privacy & Healthcare Civil Rights Compliance (PHCRC) is to safeguard public trust by empowering our University of South Florida (aoa体育) community to uphold the highest legal and ethical standards related to healthcare business integrity and privacy protection.
We accomplish this by:
- Promoting a culture of compliance and decision-making consistent with our organizational values
- Establishing privacy policies, procedures, and guidelines
- Providing privacy education and outreach
- Analyzing and mitigating compliance and privacy risks
- Investigating and resolving issues of potential non-compliance
- Facilitating patients’ rights related to their health information
- Leading privacy incident response efforts and any subsequent breach reporting
- Mitigating privacy incidents
- Resolving privacy investigations with federal and state regulatory agencies
- Monitoring and evaluating the appropriateness of access to medical records
- Ensuring healthcare is delivered to our patients without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in compliance with Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act.
Our Goals: Our goals are to 1) promote information privacy awareness amongst the aoa体育 community and 2) ensure that aoa体育’s workforce has the training and resources needed to protect private information, report privacy issues and concerns, and refer questions to us when additional guidance is needed.
Our Scope: We have oversight over federal and state privacy laws and regulations including, but not limited to, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Our Privacy Officer and Healthcare Civil Rights Coordinator: The aoa体育 Privacy Officer and Healthcare Civil Rights Coordinator is Barbara Wolodzko, JD, LL.M., LL.M., CHC, CCEP, CIPP/US. Barbara is the designated privacy official for the entire aoa体育 HIPAA Covered Entity and is responsible for overseeing compliance with all federal and state patient privacy regulations and privacy related policies, procedures, and best practices.
We are a Hybrid Entity: aoa体育 has designated itself as a "HIPAA Hybrid Entity," as that term is defined under HIPAA at 45 C.F.R. § 164.105, and, as such, includes both covered and non-covered functions. "Covered" functions are subject to HIPAA; whereas, "uncovered" functions are not. aoa体育 has designated the following healthcare components of aoa体育 as covered components subject to HIPAA: aoa体育 Health Morsani College of Medicine, and its constituent schools and departments (including its School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences); Taneja College of Pharmacy; aoa体育 Student Health Services; aoa体育 Health Neuroscience Institute (Home of the Johnnie B. Byrd, Sr. Alzheimer’s Center); aoa体育 College of Behavioral & Community Sciences Department of Communication Sciences and Speech Disorders; aoa体育 St. Peterburg campus Family Study Center, Infant Family Center; The advance practice providers under aoa体育 College of Nursing; aoa体育 Medical Services Support Corporation (MSSC); University Medical Service Association, Inc. (UMSA); and the aoa体育 administrative and operational units that support them.
We Participate in an Organized Health Care Arrangement: aoa体育 participates in an Organized Healthcare Arrangement (OHCA) with other healthcare providers. Within the OHCA, member organizations may share patient health information for treatment, payment, or operations related to the OHCA. Please refer to the Joint Notice of Privacy Practices below for a listing of the current OHCA participants.
Our Joint Notice of Privacy Practices: click here