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Stay On Top Of Patient Record Requests Or Risk HIPAA Payout

Published on Fri Jun 11, 2021

Letting responses to patient record requests fall to the bottom of your to-do pile could cost you. The HHS Office for Civil Rights made patients’ rights to access their medical records an agency priority in 2019, and a recent case shows OCR means business. On June 2, OCR announced its 19th settlement as part of its Right of Access Initiative. [...]
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