appstate77 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 6:31 pm
AppStFan1 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 4:42 pm
appstate77 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 12:50 pm
Medical diagnoses are not revealed due to federal privacy laws like HIPAA. I can also see coaches not revealing too much for opposing coaches to plan for.
This is nothing to do with HIPPA. They are just respecting his privacy. If Cam wants to tell what happened then he can but otherwise this did not happen with football so they are giving him his privacy.
Coaches are actually smart not to give away injury information at all so teams can't try to scheme around hitting that area harder or anything.
Well, yes that's exactly the way HIPAA works. I ve had to work under HIPAA for the last 25 years. If a player or family wants to share info they, obviously, can. However, an institution like a hospital or school cannot share the medical info.
Pro sports and Hippa
https://deadspin.com/do-hipaa-laws-appl ... 1844195531
https://www.google.com/search?q=is+it+a ... e&ie=UTF-8
College and hipaa
https://training-conditioning.com/artic ... te-matter/
https://thesportjournal.org/article/the ... essionals/
"Depending upon the status of a team physician for college teams, there are different stipulations about what information can be shared. Some team physicians conduct part of their practice through the student health center. In this case, the physician falls under the guidelines of FERPA and should be allowed to share information with coaches and athletic trainers. A physician not employed by a university-run health center will be subject to the HIPAA guidelines. In this case it is possible that, in order for any information to be released to athletic trainers, an authorization form would need to be signed. An exception to HIPAA exists that specifically states that information can be released to another provider for treatment purposes. What is unclear, however, is whether or not a trainer is considered a provider under HIPAA guidelines (Hill, 2003).
For coaches and other school administrators, an authorization would need to be provided before this information could be shared. Another concern is on-field evaluations information. Can this be shared with the necessary parties? The answer, it seems, is that these evaluations would fall under the category of emergency evaluations, for which prior authorization is unnecessary.
Finally, regarding the sharing of information with the media, this issue is clear-cut. Under HIPAA, personal health information can be provided to sports information staff or the media only with authorization from the athlete (Magee et al., 2003)."
