Healthcare IT News April 7, 2022
As cyber threats increase, this RFI aims to help the agency support implementation of security best practices and better share enforcement funds with individuals harmed by HIPAA violations.
The Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wants to hear from healthcare stakeholders about two components of the 2009 HITECH Act, which was amended this past year.
WHY IT MATTERS
OCR’s request for information is meant to help the agency better understand how to support the healthcare industry’s implementation of recognized security practices, officials say.
In addition, they say it will help inform better strategies to ensure funds, collected through OCR enforcement actions, are disbursed to individuals harmed by HIPAA violations.
Specifically, OCR wants public feedback...
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