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GovInfoSecurity Compliance Compliance HealthInfoSec) • March 9, 2021     18 Minutes    Twitter Zachary Perry and Rita Bowen of the Association of Health Information Outsourcing Services Proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule could weaken patient data privacy protections, say Rita Bowen and Zachary Perry of the Association of Health Information Outsourcing Services. A notice of proposed rulemaking from the Department of Health and Human Services was published in the Federal Register in January (s...

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...

Get Permission Many of the major health data breaches added to the federal tally so far this year involve business associates, continuing a trend in recent years. The largest breach added so far in 2021 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website – which lists health data breaches affecting 500 or more individuals – is a vendor hacking incident reported on Jan. 29 by Florida Healthy Kids Corp., a provider of children's' health and dental health plans in Florida. That breach – reported as affecting 3.5 million individuals - involved Jelly Be...

The Complaint HHS OCR says that in June 2019, it received a complaint alleging that Sharp failed to take timely action in response to a patient's records access request directing that an electronic copy of protected health information in an electronic health record be sent to a third party. OCR says it provided Sharp with technical assistance on the HIPAA right of access requirements. But in August 2019, OCR received a second complaint alleging that Sharp still had not responded to the patient's records access request. OCR initiated an investigation, and Sharp eventually provided access to ...

HHS has issued its 15th HIPAA settlement involving a patient's right to access their medical records. Will enforcement of HIPAA's records access provision be a