Standards for Privacy
of Individually Identifiable Health Information
(as published in Federal Register,
August 14, 2002)
Final Rule Effective Date: October
15, 2002
HHS SUMMARY: The Department
of Health and Human Services ("HHS" or "Department")
modifies certain standards in the Rule entitled "Standards
for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information"
("Privacy Rule"). The Privacy Rule implements
the privacy requirements of the Administrative Simplification
subtitle of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act of 1996.
The purpose of these modifications is to maintain strong
protections for the privacy of individually identifiable
health information while clarifying certain of the Privacy
Rule's provisions, addressing the unintended negative
effects of the Privacy Rule on
health care quality or access to health care, and relieving
unintended administrative burdens created by the Privacy
Rule.
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