You’ve likely heard by now that the Office for Civil Rights (the OCR) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on April 17, 2023, that makes changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to promote reproductive privacy (see the HHS Fact Sheet). The new NPRM makes changes related to uses and disclosures, and Notices of Privacy … Read more
Novel Coronavirus, aka COVID-19, is on track to stretch our healthcare system to the breaking point, and our healthcare providers along with it. In effect as of March 15, 2020, the OCR’s published a Limited Waiver of HIPAA Sanctions and Penalties that during this National Emergency could give care providers one less source of anxiety … Read more
Remember a few years ago we wrote about When it Comes to HIPAA Violations, Size Doesn’t Matter? Then it was a small specialty physician practice in Arizona that was hit with a penalty – now it’s a Denver pharmacy, Cornell Prescription Pharmacy. A well-known single-location pharmacy serving the greater Denver metropolitan area, they’re being pinged … Read more
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