Medical Economics February 22, 2023
Report to Congress finds 39% increase from 2017-2021, though numbers fell in last year covered by report
Reports of breaches of federally-protected electronic health data have steadily increased in recent years. But the government’s ability to investigate and mete out penalties for them has not kept pace.
Those findings were part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) 2021 annual report submitted to Congress Tuesday. OCR is responsible for enforcing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the 1996 law that prohibits patient health information from being disclosed without the patient’s consent or knowledge.
The report found that between 2017 and 2021 the number of HIPAA-related complaints OCR received increased...
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