Proposed Rule: HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures Under the Health Information Technology for Economic & Clinical Health Act

June 27, 2011 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services proposed changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act giving patients additional rights to request reports from health care entities about how their personal health information has been shared and with whom it was shared. Health care entities will be required to provide two reports upon patient request. One documenting sharing for health care-related purposes; the other documenting sharing for purposes not directly related to the individual patient's medical care, such as sharing information with law enforcement or public health investigations. August 1, 2011 was . . .