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Released: July 09, 2010

Feds propose rules to strengthen patient privacy rights

Source: Lucas Mearian, Computerworld

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed a new federal healthcare information privacy rule that would let patients restrict access to certain health information and ban the sale of patient data without consent.

The proposed plan to modify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 was announced today by David Blumenthal , head of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology, and Georgina Verdugo, director of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

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