HealthIT Answers January 27, 2022
By Art Gross, President and CEO, HIPAA Secure Now!
The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule is a requirement put in place that requires HIPAA-covered entities and their business associates to “provide notification following a breach of unsecured protected health information.”
The details provide an outline for how healthcare providers, hospitals, and physicians must notify the affected individuals, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), and the media in certain circumstances.
What Are the Notification Requirements?
Individuals
The individual that is affected by the breach must be notified once the discovery is made, and it needs to be done in written form via first-class mail. If that person has requested that notifications are to be received electronically, the...
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