Health IT Security July 7, 2022
Jill McKeon

Two US Senators penned a letter to HHS asking it to consider updates to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to safeguard reproductive rights and patient privacy.

US Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) asked HHS to consider updating the HIPAA Privacy Rule to better defend reproductive rights in a recent letter.

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has raised significant data and patient privacy concerns in recent weeks, prompting the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to release guidance on patient privacy and rights under the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

“When HIPAA was signed into law in 1996, Roe v. Wade had upheld the right to an abortion for over two decades,” the letter stated.

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