On January 17, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a press release announcing the modifications to the HIPAA Privacy and Security rules. The HHS issued the final rule to:
-modify the HIPAA Privacy, Security and Enforcement Rules to implement statutory amendments under HITECH to strengthen privacy and security protection for individuals’ health information (applying Security Rule standards, certain Privacy Rules directly to business associates);
A good look at the recent HIPAA/HITECH changes from HHS, compliments of CyberPeg...
