On January 6, 2025, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (Proposed Rule) updating the Health Insurance Portability and...more
On December 10, 2020, as part of its Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to modify the HIPAA Privacy Rule....more
On April 2, 2020, the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services (OCR) announced that, effective immediately, they would exercise “enforcement discretion” regarding disclosures of COVID-19-related...more
With paramedics, law enforcement, public health authorities and other first responders at the forefront in helping combat COVID-19, the sharing of protected health information (PHI) with them is often critical to ensure that...more