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HHS Secretary Sebelius Delegates Oversight and Enforcement of HIPAA Security Rule to OCR

August 4, 2009 HIPAA Law, Security No Comments

U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has delegated oversight and enforcement of the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Security Rule Standards for Protection of Electronic Protected Health Information to HHS’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR), effective July 27, 2009.  Since October 7, 2003, the Security Rule had been the responsibility of HHS’s Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). OCR also has responsibility for the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Privacy Rule.  This delegation brings responsibility for administrative, technical, and physical standards for safeguarding of protected health information in each rule under one authority, and likely will facilitate enforcement of the HITECH Act breach, notification, and business associate security rule compliance provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, signed by President Obama on February 17, 2009.

The Delegation of Authority was published in the August 4, 2009, Federal Register.

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