Annual Report To Congress On HIPAA Privacy, Security & Breach Notification Rule Compliance
The report was released on February 16, 2023, by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) within the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The report presents the number of complaints OCR received in 2021 about violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and/or the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. This report identifies the number of complaints OCR received during 2021, the method by which those complaints were resolved, the number of compliance reviews initiated by OCR, and the outcome of each review.
A violation is an event in which . . .