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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 10, 2020, the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") released a proposed rule that amends provisions in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ("HIPAA") Privacy Rule to facilitate individuals’ engagement in their care, remove barriers to coordinated care and reduce administrative burdens on the health care industry. In 2018, HHS launched the “Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care,” an initiative to accelerate a transformation of the healthcare system, with a ...

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Tuesday, December 22, 2020 As part of its Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently proposed important changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule. The changes are designed to enhance individuals’ involvement in their care, remove barriers to coordinated care and ease administrative burdens under the HIPAA privacy rule. If finalized, the changes would require significant modifications to regulated entities’ policies and procedures, training and notice of privacy practices (NPP)...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 10, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to revise the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The proposed revisions to the Privacy Rule seek to amend provisions that create barriers to coordinated care “without sufficiently compensating for, or offsetting, such burdens through privacy protections.” OCR developed the proposals after reviewing the public input received in response to the December 2018 Request for Information on Modifying HIPAA Rul...