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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't take it personally.[/quote]

DP. I take my child’s privacy very seriously. This would really bother me and unless they are considering their school nurses as part of Childrens, a likely privacy violation. [/quote]
This exactly. I’d be speaking with an attorney.[/quote]
And you’d be told that you consented to the release of information just like OP did.[/quote]

DP. It's actually not clear at all that what OP signed was an actual, affirmative HIPAA release, or just an "acknowledgement" of HIPAA permitted disclosures that do not require consent.  If the later, I would argue that it was an inappropriate disclosure because the school nurse is not part of the treatment plan in any sort of blanket way.  There needs to be a little more in the chain than just "we always notify the school nurse."  [/quote]
OP has already clarified twice that she consented to the records being disclosed to her school system. She has said her point is the disclosure is in the middle of a bunch of text with no obvious opt out. [/quote]

No she didn't actually clarify the legal significance of what she signed. Would be curious to see the exact language. There's a difference between a disclosure and a consent. Typically an actual consent is not hidden in the middle of the document.  The middle of the document is where all the automatically permissible disclosures are  ... "we will disclose to third party vendors for billing blah blah blah." [/quote]
OP has stated that what she signed allowed for the release of information to the school. Not sure why you keep arguing she didn’t. OP isn’t arguing that they didn’t sign and consent. OP has been trying to make the point that the consent was buried in a larger document. But go on, keep arguing.[/quote]

because there’s a legal distinction between acknowledgement and consent. [/quote]

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