OCR Continues Enforcing HIPAA Right of Access Initiative
Thursday, February 18, 2021 The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently announced another settlement involving investigations under its Right of Access Initiative. This settlement, the sixteenth such agreement under the Initiative, involves San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare, doing business as Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Centers (SRMC). In the settlement, OCR alleged that it received a complaint on June 11, 2019, that SRMC “failed to timely respond” to a patient’s request to electronically access his medical records. OCR provided technical assistance to SRMC and closed the case. O...
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