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This does not fall under HIPAA. Under the HIPAA regulations, the entities that must comply with the rules are defined as "covered entities" which are: health care plans, health care providers, and health care clearinghouses. So health clubs or gyms do not meet this definition and are therefore not subject to HIPAA. However, depending on your state, there may be laws which protect the sharing of this type of information.

We get asked this a lot at Lumoid, and wrote a blog post just for this purpose. Here it is: Understanding the Basics of Drone Rules/Regulations

Modern browsers use TLS (Transport Layer Security) for securely transmitting data between a browser and a server. This protocol was originally known as SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), and as described in Lussier's answer, is based on public key (asymmetric) cryptography that, when correctly implemented, prevents a third party from observing any data communicated over TLS.In your specific case of online medical education, TLS is sufficiently secure to ensure that any data sent by your server will not be eavesdropped on its way to the client. To use TLS, you would typically purchase and install a server certificate on the webserver providing the content, and configure the webserver to run only in HTTPS mode for those resources.However, TLS does not offer any security about what the client does with the data after transmission. Unlike a credit card purchase, in which the client is transmitting sensitive data to the server, your scenario is transmitting sensitive data to the client. Are they downloading movies, slides, or documents containing protected health information, that they could then send to third parties without your permission? If so, then you may need users to agree not to disclose the materials, or your partners may require the use of specialized viewer technology that permits students to see the information on their screen without being able to save it. (Aside: technologies that attempt to prevent saving of static information are easy to defeat because once I can see it on my screen, I can capture the information somehow. I can take a screen shot, or even use an external camera to take a digital photograph of my screen.)

One common reason would be that there is a cheaper, therapeutically equivalent drug that they would like you to try first before they approve a claim for the prescribed drug. Another reason is that they want to make sure the prescribed drug is medically necessary.Remember that nothing is stopping you from filling the prescribed drug. It just won't be covered by insurance until the pre-authorization process is complete.

OK here it is! The only way for a user to be sure to pass a test is to substitute a clean specimen of synthetic urine. The article casts doubt on the effectiveness of such a product but having taken several DOT mandated drug screens, and since the first collection is always not monitored, I can positively say that synthetic clean urine is 100% foolproof. And keep it at the correct temperature by using duct tape to keep it under your armpit in a small plastic vile.A marijuana high lasts only a few hours (around six if an edible is consumed), but traces of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, remain in the body for much longer than that. Marijuana can be detected through both blood and urine tests, which are frequently conducted for DUIs and employers. If inhaled, marijuana enters the bloodstream through alveoli in the lungs. If marijuana is eaten, the liver breaks down THC into non-psychoactive marijuana metabolites, which linger in the body and are stored in fatty tissues. Some THC metabolites have a half-life of 20 hours, while others like THC-COOH have a half-life of 13 days, according to High Times.A 2014 study found that regular marijuana users have traces of marijuana in their urine for about two weeks, according to High Times. The study also found that a tiny bit of THC can still be present in the blood of a regular user despite abstaining for several weeks.Urine tests measure THC-COOH, since it has a very long half-life in the body, according to the website for the California branch of the marijuana advocate organization Norml. Blood tests are used to measure THC levels, and directly correlate with impairment at the time the test is taken.For infrequent users, marijuana can be detected in urine for around a week or more, and blood tests can measure active THC levels for around 24 hours.For frequent or heavy marijuana users, their urine tests may show up positive for up to 100 days after their last use, and blood tests will show the presence of THC for up to one week. THC-COOH builds up in the body each time marijuana is used, and thus takes even more time to decline, according to Norml.

I'm not sure if this is a purely exploratory question or if you're inferring that you're planning on navigating the group health insurance market without the assistance of a broker. If the latter, I'd caution against it for several reasons (which I'll omit for now for the sake of brevity).To get a group quote, generally all that's needed is an employee census. Some states apply a modifier to the rate depending on the overall health of the group members (for a very accurate quote, employees may need to fill out general health statements).Obtaining rates themselves can take a few minutes (for states like CA which don't have a signNow health modifier) to several days.I suspect your cor question is the time/effort required once you've determined the most appropriate plan design for your company. This is variable depending on how cohesive your employee base is.Best case scenario - if all employees are in one location and available at the same time, I could bring an enrollment team and get all the signNowwork done in the course of 1-3 hours depending on the size of your group. In the vast majority of cases, the employer's signNowwork is typically around 6 pages of information, and the employee applications about 4-8 pages. Individually none of them take more than several minutes to complete.Feel free to contact me directly if you have specific questions or concerns.

Making a custom location on Instagram is actually quite easy and gives you an advantage to other businesses because it allows you to drive traffic via location.First off, Facebook owns Instagram; therefore, any location listed on Facebook also appears on Instagram. So you are going to need to create a business location on Facebook.So let’s dive into how to create a business location on Instagram.Make sure that you have enabled location services through the Facebook App or in your phone settings. If you are using an iPhone, select “Settings” → “Account Settings” → “Location” → “While Using The App”You need to create a Facebook check-in status. You do this by making a status and type the name of what you want your location to be called. For example “Growth Hustlers HQ”. Scroll to the bottom of the options and select “Add Custom Location” then tap on it!Now that you’ve created a custom location you need to describe it. It will ask you to choose which category describes your location, which you will answer “Business”.After choosing a category Facebook will ask you to choose a location. You can either choose “I’m currently here” or you can search for a location that you want to create for your business.Finally, publish your status. Congratulations! You have just created a custom location to be used on Facebook and Instagram.Now you are able to tag your business or a custom location on Instagram.If you have any questions about Social Media Marketing for businesses feel free to check out GrowthHustlers.com where you can find tons of resources about growing your Instagram following.

I doubt that you can. If the Tufts plan is an HMO, then you will need to ask your PCP for a referral. HMOs are paid a “capitation fee” per month for each patient. The HMO becomes the insurance carrier. Therefore, if you ask for an out of state referral for routine care, they must reimburse the other provider which they won’t want to do.If you need emergency care due to risk of life or limb, then that’s a different ballgame and should not be a problem as the ER of any hospital will coordinate with the HMO.Hope this helps.

I doubt that the publisher or author of a medical textbook could be held liable for the malpractice of a licensed, practicing doctor, who would be held, under the standards of their profession, to an expectation that they should know when to question what they are reading in a medical textbook.Now, if you're asking about whether a layperson using such information could result in publisher or author liability, that's a much more interesting question, and one that's likely to be extremely fact-based.  How old is the book, is the author him/herself a licensed physician, does the book reflect the current standards of the profession, should the reader have reasonably known that what they were doing was hazardous, was there consent and disclosure to the "patient".I think, as Sriram Venkatakrishnan mentions, that the causal relationship between the author's work and the actual harm is pretty attenuated, and likely to be a very difficult row for even a good lawyer to hoe, unless the error in the book is so absolutely blatant that any doctor would disagree with the contents.