The world continues to struggle with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and pressures mount on health care organizations to properly share personal health information. While resources abound on how federal rules such as...more
On December 10, OCR issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) outlining its plan for major changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which governs the way that most individual protected health information (PHI) can be used in...more
On September 2, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement with Cancer Care Group, P.C., a thirteen-physician oncology practice in Indiana related to violations of the...more
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