{"id":42,"date":"2021-01-21T21:28:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T01:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/privacy\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:14:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:14:57","slug":"healthcare","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/privacy\/topics\/healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University has a number of units that offer healthcare to BU employees, BU students, others in the BU community, and\/or to the public. All of our healthcare providers respect patient privacy, and all comply with Massachusetts privacy law and the highest of professional ethical standards. Under HIPAA, BU is a \u201chybrid entity\u201d.\u00a0 BU\u2019s Designation of HIPAA Covered Components is found here:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hipaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.bu.edu\/hipaa<\/a>. Healthcare privacy for HIPAA Covered Components and other BU healthcare units is managed through the Research Support Office by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/profile\/jessica-captain-novick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Director of Health Privacy and Compliance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, t<span>he Massachusetts Health Privacy Law protects the privacy and security of patient records in the University\u2019s other licensed clinics. Those records are Restricted Use data under Boston University&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/policies\/information-security\/data-protection-standards\/\" title=\"Data Protection Standards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Data Protection Standards<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Related BU Websites<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hipaa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HIPAA and Health Information Privacy Resources Website<\/a>, www.bu.edu\/hipaa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>BU Resources<\/h2>\n<h4>Health Information and Research<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/researchsupport\/compliance\/human-subjects\/hipaa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HIPAA Information for Charles River Campus Researchers,<\/a> Guide &#8211; includes information on HIPAA and PHI in the research context<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/crtimes\/featurearticle.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guidance on Data Security for Boston University Medical Campus Researchers<\/a>, February 2025 Guide &#8211; includes information on HIPAA and PHI in the research context<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University has a number of units that offer healthcare to BU employees, BU students, others in the BU community, and\/or to the public. All of our healthcare providers respect patient privacy, and all comply with Massachusetts privacy law and the highest of professional ethical standards. Under HIPAA, BU is a \u201chybrid entity\u201d.\u00a0 BU\u2019s Designation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12908,"featured_media":0,"parent":97,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/635"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}