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HIPAA Violation Cases

The HIPAA Journal

The 2020 increase is largely due to OCR’s HIPAA Right of Access enforcement initiative, which was launched in late 2019. Since then, OCR has been cracking down on entities that have failed to provide individuals with timely access to their medical records. Hackers had access to the system between April 2019 and January 2020.

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Medical Assistant Training Program

MedAssistantEDU.org

As per the data, nearly 725,000 medical assistants were working in America in 2019. However, the credits are not transferable if a candidate decides to pursue higher education in the future. With an associate degree, you learn more generalized subjects and transfer the credits while pursuing higher education.

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New HIPAA Regulations in 2022-2023

The HIPAA Journal

The CARES Act was passed by Congress on March 27, 2020, to ensure that every American has access to the care they need during the COVID-19 pandemic and to address the economic fallout from the 2019 Novel Coronavirus and COVID-19. The process of making HIPAA updates is slow, as the lack of HIPAA changes in 2019, 2020, and 2021 has shown.

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HIPAA Updates and HIPAA Changes in 2023

The HIPAA Journal

There has also been a proposed update to align the 42 CFR Part 2 – Confidentiality Of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records (Part 2) regulations more closely with HIPAA, with those Part 2 and HIPAA changes expected to be signed into law in 2023. The comment period closed on February 12, 2019.

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