Healthcare Innovation February 28, 2023
With its caseload multiplying, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the formation of a new Enforcement Division, Policy Division, and Strategic Planning Division.
OCR’s caseload has increased to more 51,000 complaints in 2022– an increase of 69 percent between 2017 and 2022 – with 27 percent alleged violations of civil rights, 7 percent alleged violations of conscience/religious freedom, and 66 percent alleged violations of health information privacy and security laws, noted OCR Director Melanie Fontes Rainer, in a statement. “Today’s reorganization improves OCR’s ability to effectively respond to complaints, puts OCR in line with its peers’ structure and moves OCR into the future.”
OCR will rename the Health Information Privacy Division (HIP)...
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