At an event earlier this week, Office for Civil Rights Director Leon Rodriguez said there will be increased enforcement of HIPAA regulations, highlighted the importance of appropriately protecting patient privacy and discussed the “what-not-to-dos” regarding healthcare privacy, Government Health IT reports. “Today is a critical day for the Omnibus,” Rodriguez said. “On the one hand, you have to have assertive enforcement; you have to have credible enforcement, that really does play a critical role in obtaining compliance,” he noted, adding, “But at the same time, you have to set rules of the road that are understandable and consistent, and you really need to make sure people know what the rules of the road are.”
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