American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Summary of Selected Education Provisions.
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Pediatric Programming at APTA Annual Conference in Baltimore
There will be an entire Concentrated Educational Series (CES) on School-Based Practice at the APTA Annual Conference in Baltimore. There will be 15 hours of school-based programming offered by nationally recognized speakers. Registration is part of the conference registration. The programming will be different than that covered in the SIG IDEA conference and includes:
Thursday, June 11
- School-Based Physical Therapy Services
Speaker: Susan K Effgen, PT, PhD, Lexington, KY
- Activity-focused Motor Interventions with Children in Preschool and School Settings
Speaker: Mary Jane K Rapport, PT, PhD, Denver, CO
Friday, June 12
- Documentation: Professional, Educational, and Medicaid Requirements for Physical Therapists in School-based Settings
Speaker: Donna E Metzger, PT, Louisville, KY
- Examination Strategies for School-Based Physical Therapists
Speaker: Toby Long, PT, PhD, Washington, DC
Saturday, June 13
- Complex Issues: The Concept of Workload and the Determination of Frequency and Intensity of Services
Speakers: Susan W Cecere, PT, Oxon Hill, MD; Susan K Effgen, PT, PhD, Lexington, KY; Larry Rechlin, PT, MS, ATP, Naples, FL
- School Bus Transportation: What Pediatric Physical Therapists Need to Know
Speaker: Jean Zimmerman, PT, West Palm Beach, FL
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
The Departments of Education and Health and Human Services have jointly released guidance to explain the relationship between the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule, and to address apparent confusion on the part of school administrators, health care professionals, and others as to how these two laws apply to student health records. The guidance also addresses certain disclosures that are allowed without consent or authorization under both laws, especially those disclosures related to health and safety emergency situations. The guidance was developed in response to the "Report to the President on Issues Raised by the Virginia Tech Tragedy" (June 13, 2007, http://www.hhs.gov/vtreport.html), as well as to address questions the respective Departments have heard generally from stakeholders regarding the intersection of the HIPAA Privacy Rule and FERPA.
The Departments of Health and Human Services and Education are committed to a continuing dialogue with school officials and other professionals on these important matters affecting the safety and security of our nation's schools. While this guidance seeks to answer many questions that school officials and others have had about the intersection of these federal laws, ongoing discussions may cause more issues to emerge. Contact information for submitting additional questions or suggestions for purposes of informing future guidance is provided at the end of the guidance document.
FERPA is a Federal law that protects the privacy of students' "education records." (See 20 U.S.C. � 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99). The HIPAA Privacy Rule requires covered entities to protect individuals' health records and other identifiable health information and gives patients rights over their health information.
The guidance is available at http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa.
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