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Transparency in Privacy March 12, 2010 11:35 AM by Cheryl McEvoy: Last month, I reported that the Office for Civil Rights had posted a list of covered entities with privacy breaches affecting more than 500 patients. The list is part of the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) new obligations under HITECH. Read More...
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OCR Posts List of Breaches February 23, 2010 1:02 PM by Cheryl McEvoy: In another HITECH milestone, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has posted a list of covered entities (CEs) that reported breaches affecting 500 or more individuals. The list, available to the public via OCR's Web site, fulfills an obligation outlined Read More...
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HHS Names New Leaders, Still No CMS Head February 19, 2010 10:51 AM by Cheryl McEvoy: What a week it's been for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Aside from celebrating the first anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), officials introduced several new comrades to the public. On Feb. 17, Joy Pritts Read More...
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Abortion Records Go on Long, Strange Trip February 24, 2009 4:05 PM by Lynn Jusinski: When patient records of women receiving abortions made their way from the Sedgwick County, KS, court to the Johnson County, KS, district attorney's office and then probably on to somewhere in Virginia and then back to Johnson County, KS, that's an issue Read More...
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