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Notice Now Required To Patients of Privacy Breaches |
September 10, 2009
Previously published on September 2009
On August 19, 2009, the Secretary of Health and Human Services published interim final regulations which require health care providers and other HIPAA covered entities to notify affected individuals following a breach of unsecured protected health information ("PHI"). These regulations were required to be issued by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 passed last February.
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