Recent enforcement actions by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) underscore the importance of providing patients with copies of their protected health information (PHI) as required by HIPAA. Failure to provide access exposes...more
9/17/2020
/ Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
HIPAA Privacy Rule ,
Investigations ,
Medical Records ,
OCR ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
Patients ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
PHI ,
Right-To-Access
Over the past months, my experiences with physician practices have made me realize that many practices do not understand how HIPAA applies to subpoenas for medical records. More worrisome, I suspect that many practices...more