Office of National Coordinator: HIPAA & Health IT
Privacy & Cybersecurity
Office of National Coordinator: HIPAA & Health IT
May 22, 2016
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has published new Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule guidance documents as part of a Privacy and Security Toolkit to implement The Nationwide Privacy and Security Framework for Electronic Exchange of Individually Identifiable Health Information (Privacy and Security Framework). These new guidance documents discuss how the Privacy Rule can facilitate the electronic exchange of health information.