The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Office for Civil Rights is drafting a notice of proposed rulemaking on “good faith” disclosures of patient data by health care providers in patient emergencies, HealthITSecurity reports. Speaking as the keynote at the Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance Through HIPAA Security conference, OCR Director Roger Severino explained such disclosure could be done so without patient consent. Meanwhile, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that Healthcare.gov suffered a data breach that may have impacted as many as 75,000 people who were receiving help with getting health insurance coverage.
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