Patient Rights

I’d like to share a personal experience that has made me so grateful to have HIPAA. I understand and sympathize with that burden HIPAA places on providers and practices. At TLD Systems we do our best to minimize that burden, educate you about your responsibilities and help you to meet the HIPAA requirements. My experiences reminded me that HIPAA is about protecting patents, and at some point we are all patients.

One of the more common causes of Government Investigations into possible HIPAA violations are patient complaints.

When we discuss HIPAA most of the articles have been on security and breaches, but HIPAA goes well beyond privacy and Security.  One aspect of the HIPAA rule is the “Right of Access”.   OCR (The Office for Civil Rights – the branch of HHS the enforces HIPAA) is enforcing this law even more strongly since the 21 Century Cures Act was published.  OCR has begun to levy fines against organizations that are in violation of the “Right of Access” rule.