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Office of Civil Rights Electronic Health Record Incentives Health Care Providers

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Proposed HIPAA Changes Intended to “Empower Patients” and “Improve Coordination of Care”

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On December 10, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) collaborated on announcing proposed HIPAA changes, intended to “empower patients” and “improve coordination of...more

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FDA Launches Digital Center of Excellence and ONC Updates HIPAA Security Risk Assessment Tool

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Why It Matters - In order to safeguard their information, health care and life science organizations should remain vigilant in monitoring DHCoE developments and initiatives, including any policy/regulation clarifications...more

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Healthcare and Innovators, Take Note: The HIPAA Privacy RFI Can Benefit You

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This past Friday, the Office of Civil Rights within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a formal Request for Information on Modifying HIPAA Rules to Improve Coordinated Care. The RFI’s publication...more

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OCR Issues Reminder on Security Incidents

Following the frequent and varied ransomware attacks on health care entities over the past few years, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published guidance last summer to the health care industry reminding it that a ransomware...more

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OCR Issues Guidance On HIPAA Privacy Rule’s De-Identification Standard

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On November 26, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) published a thirty-two page document titled “Guidance Regarding Methods for De-identification of Protected Health Information...more

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