OCR names new director
HIM-HIPAA Insider, July 7, 2014
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The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently named Jocelyn Samuels as the next OCR director, according to govinfosecurity.com.
Samuels currently serves as the acting assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. She will succeed former OCR Director Leon Rodriguez, who was named the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which is a division of Homeland Security.
Samuels will oversee HIPAA compliance at a time when OCR is expected to establish a permanent HIPAA audit program.
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