Tag: Patient Rights
HHS Addresses Federal Court Invalidation of Certain Provisions of the HIPAA rule Relating to the Third-Party Requests for Patient Records
On January 28, 2020, the Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) addressed a federal court’s January 23rd invalidation of certain provisions of t...
Read MoreGoogle data sharing deal with Ascension Health raises privacy concerns
After a patient data sharing deal came to light between Google and Ascension Health, the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF) says the federal government needs to update the Health Insuran...
Read MoreDisclosure of PHI on Yelp Results in $10,000 HIPAA Settlement
This past October, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR), the entity responsible for policing HIPAA violations, announced a settlement with a Texas dental p...
Read MoreFederal Court Strikes Down HIPAA Fee Limitations for Third-Party Medical Records Requests
On Jan. 29, 2020, OCR released a notice regarding a recent federal court ruling in the case of Ciox Health, LLC v. Azar, et al., where a federal judge in the District Court for the Distric...
Read MoreModified HIPAA Rules for Sending Records to Third Parties
Thanks to a federal judge, the Office for Civil Rights has modified its rules for sending records to third parties. Covered entities are no longer required by HIPAA to send non-electronic protected...
Read MoreONC advisory group wants to add price transparency, data privacy focus
The Health Information Technology Advisory Committee on Wednesday finalized its list of 31 issues to tackle over the next two years, including price transparency and third-party access to health da...
Read MoreOpaque pricing, data silos still mar interoperability progress, HITAC says
Read MoreThe Health Information Technology Advisory Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved its second annual report to Congress on the state of health IT landscape, reco...
District Court Ruling Impacts HIPAA Access Request Permissible Charges
On January 23, 2020, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia declared sections of the 2013 Omnibus Rule unlawful. The Court found that the Department of Health and Human Servi...
Read MoreSubpoena for Medical Records and HIPAA Compliance
Handling a subpoena for medical records creates the potential for either a HIPAA violation or a contempt of court citation. How a healthcare organization responds to a subpoena for me...
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