Certification for HIPAA certification: viewing on Nov. 10th @11:30am, GWB fourth floor
Need to gather legislation on archives for Pat & Lorrie
Any other legislation that Victor needs to look into? --> Pat mentions her students' state archives projects, which she will share with group
Notes the constantly changing nature of law
King: national policy regarding access? --> Victor: HIPAA is close, but could be a stronger research access policy
Unmil: limitations of state-level laws/policies beyond cloud storage
Victor: might be useful to focus on state laws that are "bad"
Pat: metadata structure that we create should recognize that patients' relatives have privileged access (blank profile that allows access to materials that is not administrative)
King: would be helpful to have a synthesis of state laws regarding privacy/access of medical records because there is a general lack of understanding among mental health directors of what to do with archival health records
Victor: not sure how to compare/contrast laws across states because of the many variables (e.g., retention of various record genres); perhaps a focus on family disclosure at federal and state levels
Pat: hospital and state archives retention schedules (interpretation of HIPAA and state laws) are always changing