Test 5 Part 7 Flashcards
Who has the responsibility of Title II of GINA?
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC
When did Title II of GINA go into effect?
January 10, 2011
__________ maintains information about current issues facing states, including those surrounding genetic privacy laws. Current state genetic privacy laws are summarized in a table on the NCSL website.
National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)
Statutory or regulatory provisions that safeguard genetic information and prohibit discrimination in employment and insurance benefits based on genetic information and mandatory genetic testing for employment and insurance purposes.
State genetic laws
Degree of protection provided by states varies. Some state provisions are less protective than GINA, and some more protective. All entities that are subject to GINA must, at a minimum, comply with applicable GINA requirements as well as more protective state laws.
State genetic laws
Goal to speed up patient-centered biomedical discoveries using genetic information
Precision Medicine Initiative 2016
Precision Medicine Initiative set privacy protections in place and ways for patients to _________ but still retain control over use of information
Participate
Legal status in which the parental rights and responsibilities of one set of parents are legally terminated and a new parental relationship is established by law
Adoption
__________ Relinquished their parental rights to release Information/see information on Adoptive Person
Biological parents
_________ May inspect minor adoptee’s medical records after all identifying information regarding biological parents has been redacted
Adoptive parents