{"id":13104,"date":"2017-04-18T19:52:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T19:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-sentinel.com\/?p=13104"},"modified":"2017-04-18T19:53:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T19:53:17","slug":"hipaa-enforcement-issues-straight-regulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital-sentinel.com\/transfer\/hipaa-enforcement-issues-straight-regulator\/","title":{"rendered":"HIPAA Enforcement Issues Straight from the Regulator"},"content":{"rendered":"

At last week\u2019s Health Care Compliance Association\u2019s annual \u201cCompliance Institute,\u201d \u00a0Iliana Peters, HHS\u00a0Office for Civil Rights\u2019 Senior Advisor for HIPAA Compliance and Enforcement, provided a thorough update<\/a>\u00a0of HIPAA enforcement trends as well as a road map to OCR\u2019s current and future endeavors.<\/p>\n

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Continuing Enforcement Issues<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ms. Peters identified key\u00a0ten enforcement issues that OCR continues to encounter through its enforcement of HIPAA.\u00a0 Do any of them look familiar to you? These issues include:<\/p>\n

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  1. Impermissible Disclosures<\/strong>. HIPAA\u2019s Privacy Rule prohibits covered entities and business associates from disclosing PHI except as permitted or\u00a0required under HIPAA. Impermissible disclosures identified by Ms. Peters all center on the need for authorization, and include:\n