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10:05 AM The HHS Office for Civil Rights on Tuesday announced the most recent in a spate of monetary settlements in its HIPAA right of access enforcement. WHY IT MATTERS OCR has made enforcement of patient access a major priority in recent months. In the most recent case, Dr. Peter Wrobel and his Georgia-based practice Elite Primary Care agreed to take corrective actions and pay $36,000 to settle a potential violation of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. In April 2019, OCR received an allegation that Elite had not responded to a patient's request for access to his medical records. A month later, the ag...

03:44 PM Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard speaks with Matthew Fisher, a partner at Mirick O'Connell and a specialist in healthcare law, about the proposed HIPAA rule changes. They discuss the content of the rules, what effect they're likely to have and the timing of the rules as the presidential administration changes over. This will be the last episode of the year. We'll be back with more podcasts in 2021. Talking points:  How the right of access is being strengthened Alignment with the info-blocking rules Expanded definitions for care coordination and care management The e...

Newton recently appointed three newly elected members to its Board of Directors: Annie Greene, Eric Boecher and Gloria Greene, a Newton native, joins the Board of Directors after 10 years of involvement at the Y's residential camp, Camp Frank A. Day. She attended Frank A. Day as a camper and then spent four years as a counselor. In 2018, she spoke about her camp experience at the Y's "A Night Under the Stars" fundraising gala. She is a graduate of St. Lawrence University and is currently working as a nanny while attending nursing school. She is the daughter of the late Frederick Greene...

Get Permission HHS Secretary Alex Azar says proposed HIPAA privacy rule changes aim to "break down barriers" in care coordination. The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday issued a long-awaited proposed rule that would modify the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Among the changes proposed are: Dropping the requirement for healthcare entities to obtain and retain for six years patients’ signed acknowledgements of notices of privacy practices; Reducing the time from 30 days to 15 days for covered entities to fulfill patient requests for receiving copies of their health information; Allowin...

Worcester school bus hub and conservation land are part of plans for former Allegro property Steven H. Foskett Jr., Telegram & Gazette © T&G Staff/Rick Cinclair The one-time Allegro plant, 115 Northeast Cutoff WORCESTER — Plans to redevelop the former Allegro plant on Northeast Cutoff include a city school bus depot and a conservation restriction that will connect open space parcels in the area.  The Planning Board Wednesday approved a special permit and site plan to Worcester-based Chacharone Properties as part of the developer's plans to convert the 40-acre site in Gre...