HPP to monitor enforcement of privacy rule
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, April 11, 2003
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The Health Privacy Project (HPP) recently posted a model privacy complaint form on its Web site and is asking the public to provide the group with copies of complaints submitted to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
The Georgetown University group announced April 8 the launch of its HIPAA privacy complaint monitoring initiative, which will monitor the oversight and enforcement of the HIPAA privacy rule by the OCR.
"We want to ensure that patients' rights will be safeguarded and that the OCR lives up to its responsibility to enforce the HIPAA privacy rule vigorously," said Janlori Goldman, Director of the HPP. "Given that HIPAA does not give people the right to sue, individuals must rely on the Bush administration to represent their interests. Our monitoring initiative is intended to ensure that consumers' voices are heard."
Go to http://www.healthprivacy.org for more information.
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