Proposed Changes to HIPAA Privacy Rule Would Promote Information Sharing for Care Coordination Activities and Strengthen Individuals’ Rights to Access Records
By EsqSocial Corporation 05/01/21
On December 10, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to amend the Standards for the Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, 45 C.F.R. Parts 160 and 164, Subpart E (the Privacy Rule). In response to its December 2018 Request for Information (RFI) for public input on areas of potential modification to the HIPAA Rules, OCR received over 1,300 comments addressing, among other topics:...
By: Bass, Berry & Sims PLC