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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please leave the school out of it and work with the nurse and hospital directly if you feel the need to discuss further. The school has nothing to do with it because nurses don’t work for DCPS. School staff have enough on their plate and won’t be able to provide you with any information or next steps about this. [/quote]

False. The records may have become school records covered by FERPA when they were transmitted to the school. OP has every reason to contact the school, particularly if the nurse has been pushy and inappropriate about it. [/quote]

[quote]Nevertheless, certain activities, when performed by a school, could be subject to other provisions of HIPAA that concern electronic transactions.[b] According to the preamble to the December 2000 final rules, "the educational institution or agency that employs a school nurse is subject to our (HIPAA) regulation if the school nurse or the school engages in a HIPAA transaction."[/b] HIPAA transactions are defined in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) as "the transmission of information between two parties to carry out financial or administrative activities related to health care," including submitting claims. [b]However, consent must still be secured under FERPA before the records are disclosed.[/b][/quote]

For some items, both HIPAA and FERPA apply, including electronic transactions of PHI.

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2006/stu_privacy/healthrecords.asp
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