HIPAA Disclosure Documentation

Prior to the establishment of HIPAA Policies and Procedures, no federal regulations existed that required any type of tracking system to account for the release of information.  Now, however, based on the HIPAAprivacy rule, as explained in the Omnibus final rule, covered entities must track protected health information that has been disclosed.  This was instituted to allow an individual to receive an accounting of disclosures for the six years preceding their request.  In order to comply with this regulation, covered entities must have a tracking system in place.

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