White House Reviewing HHS Info Request On Ways To Reform HIPPA

The White House budget office on Tuesday (Nov. 13) began reviewing HHS’ request for feedback on ways to revamp the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act to boost efforts to coordinate care. The HHS Office for Civil Rights’ regulatory agenda says that the request will also subsume previous HIPAA changes that have been on the regulatory agenda since 2011, when the HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act was proposed...