HealthIT Answers September 26, 2021
By Matt Fisher, General Counsel, Carium
The Office for Civil Rights announced its twentieth HIPAA right of access settlement on September 10, 2021, which continues the initiative that has been a primary focal point of enforcement for the past couple of years. The stream of settlements doesn’t seem to have changed behavior though. The concern was best stated in a recent tweet from Lucia Savage:
You’d think after 20 settlements in two years, people would stop violating #patients right to #access their own #PHI. @GraceCordovano @HealthPrivacy @Matt_R_Fisher @ravindranize
I’ve not done the math but surely the total is now around $500k?https://t.co/WGvSuqh6c7
— Lucia Savage (@SavageLucia) September 13, 2021
While the question posed by Lucia is certainly a valid...
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