HealthLeadersMedia | The Office for Civil Rights has revealed the top areas of interest on its HIPAA privacy and security compliance radar. Adam Greene, former senior health information technology and privacy advisor at OCR and now partner at the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine in Washington,...
imagingBiz | The American Hospital Association (AHA) has sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), slamming a proposed HIPAA rule that would allow patients to request reports that identify any party or entity that accesses...
HealthLeadersMedia | The right to request an "access report" as outlined in the Office for Civil Rights' proposed HIPAA accounting of disclosures rule could be an asset to attorneys in HIPAA civil suits and malpractice cases, privacy experts say. Under the proposed accounting of disclosures rule,...