HHS gives OCR subpoena authority
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, April 23, 2007
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The secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) has delegated to the director of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) the authority to issue subpoenas in investigations of alleged violations of the privacy rule. HHS published the news in the April 16 Federal Register, available here.
The OCR director can redelegate this authority and issue subpoenas "requiring attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of any evidence that relates to any matter under investigation or compliance review for failure to comply with [the privacy rule]," according to the notice.
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