OCR: HITECH guidance coming
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, March 15, 2010
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Expect OCR to deliver privacy rule guidance, but don’t expect to know when.
OCR officials told the participants at the two-day “Workshop on the HIPAA Privacy Rule’s De-Identification Standard” in Washington March 8 that guidance on changes to the privacy rule and other HITECH-required guidance is forthcoming.
Linda Sanches, a senior advisor on Health Information Privacy in the OCR Boston office, and Susan McAndrew, OCR’s deputy director of Health Information Privacy, each spoke at the workshop and talked about upcoming guidance.
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