HHS: Press conference Thursday, July 8 to announce 'significant' HIPAA changes
HCPRO Website, July 7, 2010
HIPAA changes are finally here — or at least they will be announced in a press conference Thursday, July 8.
HHS announced Wednesday, July 7, it will host a press conference to announce “significant modifications” to the HIPAA privacy and security and enforcement rules. It also plans to discuss “resources and activities to strengthen the privacy of health information and to help Americans understand their rights and resources available to safeguard their personal health information.”
The press briefing begins at 10:30 a.m. Thursday and features Kathleen Sebelius, HHS secretary; Georgina Verdugo, director of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which enforces the HIPAA privacy and security rules for HHS; David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., national coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS; Joy Pritts, chief privacy officer at the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) at HHS; and Susan McAndrew, deputy director of the Health Information Privacy Division at OCR.
HHS will announce proposed rules per the HITECH Act that modifies the HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules.
The event takes place at the HHH Auditorium, 200 Independence, SW, Washington, DC. The dial-in for the call is 800-857-6748, and the passcode is HHS.
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