HIPAA Compliance: Why the Stakes Are Higher Now Than Ever Before Recent legislative amendments and increased enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule have conferred a painful bite to the patient privacy regulations once considered to be a paper tiger. As the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) implements an unprecedented nationwide audit program to uncover violations, the stakes for HIPAA compliance<http://www.corporatecomplianceinsights.com/category/healthcare-compliance>have never been higher for medical care providers, insurers and the businesses that support them. http://bit.ly/zcqvor Source: http://www.corporatecomplianceinsights.com/hipaa-compliance-why-stakes-higher-now-than-ever-before/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+CorporateComplianceInsights+(Corporate+Compliance+Insights)&utm_content=Google+Reader See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/zcqvor+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]