Blueprint for a Pop-up SARS-CoV-2 Testing Lab

Jennifer A. Doudna

is the (which was not peer-reviewed) The copyright holder for this preprint . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.11.20061424 doi: medRxiv preprint HIPAA training was provided by the Thomson Reuters HIPAA Privacy and Security (California) course, which covers fundamental HIPAA privacy and security principles, such as administrative, physical, and technical safeguards, and handling and use of protected health information. An additional chapter of the course covers medical privacy laws of California, which include requirements concerning the handling and use of protected health information and penalties for violations under California state law. Personnel involved in accepting, accessioning, testing, and resulting the patient samples were required to take the class and pass the exit examination before beginning work in the facility. Non-testing staff who will be present in a laboratory in which patient health information exists must also be HIPAA-trained (e.g. equipment technicians).