Ignore OCR at Your Own Risk

Pulse October 23, 2024
Matt Fisher

The Office for Civil Rights announced the latest in its ongoing series of settlements or penalties stemming from individual right of access issues under HIPAA on October 17, 2024, which also happens to be the fiftieth such settlement. While the focus on right of access has been continuous for a number of years now, the opportunity to fully understand what happened before the resulting settlement or penalty is still very infrequent. The current announcement provides an aberration not just from that pattern, but also optimistically the approach of many organizations.

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Gums Dental Care (“GDC”) is a dental practice located in Maryland. A parent submitted a request for the records of the parent’s children in both April and...

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