AHIMA September 5, 2019
Federal health privacy officials have indicated that they plan more robust enforcement of HIPAA’s right to access provision. In order to prepare health information management (HIM) professionals for future enforcement actions, Deven McGraw, JD, MPH, delivered a webinar on “Understanding Patient Access to Health Records in Today’s Digitized World” for AHIMA members on Thursday.
McGraw previously directed US health privacy and security through her roles as deputy director, health information privacy at the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR), and as acting chief privacy officer at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. The webinar summarized the findings of a survey and study conducted by the group Citizen—where McGraw is currently the chief...