HIPAA Privacy Rule Modification – Removing Barriers and Promoting Coordinated Care at What Cost?
By EsqSocial Corporation 24/05/21
On May 6, 2021, the comment period for the proposed modification to regulations implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy Rule and Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (“HITECH”) closed. The Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) at the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued its initial request for information in December 2018, subsequently released the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) to...
By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP