Feb 16, 2021 | HIPAA
CG Attorneys continue to monitor and provide updates regarding the HIPAA Right of Access Initiative by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’(HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Under the HIPAA Right of Access Initiative, OCR has made a determined effort to...
Dec 29, 2020 | HIPAA
CG attorneys have discussed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’(HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) focus on patient access to records in its “HIPAA Right of Access Initiative.” Under this initiative, OCR settled numerous actions involving medical...
Nov 16, 2020 | HIPAA
The HIPAA Privacy Rule generally requires covered entities to provide individuals access to their “designated record sets” maintained by or for the covered entity, as defined by 45 C.F.R. § 164.501. There are specific requirements to comply with the HIPAA Privacy...
Nov 11, 2020 | HIPAA
Over the past year, CG attorneys have alerted readers about the focus of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’(HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) on patient access to records in its “HIPAA Right of Access Initiative.” Under this initiative, OCR announced at...
Sep 30, 2020 | Cyber Law
The online HIPAA Journal has published the statistics for reported breaches of protected health information (PHI) of 500 or more patients occurring during August, 2020, available here. The total number of such breaches reported was 37, virtually identical to the...
