Just eighteen months after thefirst major HIPAA enforcement actions by the U.S. DHHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the OCR announced that Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates, Inc. (MEEI) had agreed to pay

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) includes two main components that are administered by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR):  the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information (Protected Health Information

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