Posts tagged 'Breach Notification Rule'

April 13, 2011
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Data Breaches Impact 10M Americans

The Office of Civil Rights (OCR), the unit of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) responsible for monitoring health information breaches, recently reported that the total number of Americans affected by large data breaches has surpassed 10 million individuals. With the enactment of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and its Breach Notif...