Private practices revealed on patient breach website
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, July 19, 2010
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The names of "private practices" reporting breaches of unsecured protected health information (PHI) affecting 500 or more individuals have been revealed.
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the enforcer of the HIPAA privacy and security rules, removed the anonymity on those entities as it revealed its updated breach notification website July 8.
The new website went live the same day the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees OCR, released a proposed rule it says "significantly" modifies the HIPAA privacy, security, and enforcement rules.
When the original HITECH-required website went live in February, industry insiders questioned OCR listing some, but not all, entities as "private practice."
"This certainly received some attention on several listservs where participants were scratching their heads asking why these covered entities were not identified beyond being listed as 'private practice,'” says Frank Ruelas, director of compliance and risk management at Maryvale Hospital and principal of HIPAA College in Casa Grande, AZ.
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