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HIPAA Enforcement Initiatives Aim To Empower Patients In Accessing Health Records

Magellan Solutions

Twenty-three years after HIPAA’s enactment into law, the U.S Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (HSS-OCR) implements stricter enforcement of patients’ rights to access their information. During the 11th annual HIPAA conference, OCR Director Roger Severino emphasized that “it’s time for serious enforcement, especially when we are moving to a full mobile data cloud age.”.