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Contract N <br />(C0111Y:ICTOr~ <br />Defer to IIIPfLA instructions /or when to teas 73tcain.ess ~lsaociate•Ad~leno'u:m.. <br />ATTACHMENT I <br />~ ARR ~ BUSINESS ASS4C ATE ADDENDUM SERVICES <br />This Agreement ie made effective the °~ day of July, 2007, by' and between Cabarrus <br />County Department of Social Services ("Covered- Entity") and Carolinas Medical Center <br />NorthEast ("Business Associate") (collectively the "Parties"). <br />1. BACKGROUND <br />a. Covered Entity and Business Associate are. parties to a contract entitled (identify <br />contract) Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEaat/Child Advocacy Center (the <br />"Contract"), wheireby Business Associate agrees to perform certain services for or on <br />behalf of Covered Entity... <br />b. Covered Entity is an organizational unit of Cabarrus County (the "County') that. has <br />been designated in whole or in part by the County as a health care component for <br />purposes of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, <br />c. The. relationship between Covered Entity and Business Associate is such that the <br />Parties believe Business Associate is or may be a "business associate" within the <br />meaning of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. <br />d. The Parties enter into this Business Associate Addendum to the Contract with the <br />intontion of complying with the HIPAA Privacy Rule provision that a covered entity <br />may diacloso protected health information to a businoss associate, and may allow a <br />business associate to create or receive protected heath information on its behalf, if <br />the covered entity obtains satisfactory assurances that the business associate will <br />appropriatoly safeguard the information. <br />2. DEFINITIONS <br />Unless some other meaning is clearly indicated by the context, the following terms shall <br />have the' following meaning in this Agreement; <br />a. "HIPAA" means-the Administrativo Simplification Provisions, Sections 261 through <br />284, of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability 'Act of 1996, <br />Public Law 104.191. <br />b. "Individual" shall have the same meaning as the term "individual" in 46 <br />CFR160,103 and shall include a person who qualifies as a personal representative in <br />accordance with 46 CFR 164.b02(g)'. <br />« >, <br />c. Privacy Rule shall moan the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable <br />Health Information at 46 CFR part 160 and part 164, subparts A and E. <br />d. "Protected Health Information" shall have the same meaning ea the term "protected <br />health information" in 46 CFR 160.103, limited to the information created or <br />received by Business Associate from or on behalf of Covered Entity. <br />Contraot•HIPAA (06%04) ~ ~ ~ ~ Page 1 of 4 <br />