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OCR stepping up HIPAA privacy, security enforcement

fiercehealthit.com

The HITECH provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act gave the HHS Office for Civil Rights new and stronger powers to enforce HIPAA privacy regulations and shifted HIPAA security enforcement to OCR from CMS. The office intends to take full advantage of its widened authority, which includes the ability to impose civil fines of as much as $1.5 million per violation.

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