Telehealth and HIPAA Compliance: What You Need to Know Now

Originally published by CyberGuard Compliance. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Notification of Enforcement Discretion which announced that the OCR would would be exercising it enforcement discretion to not impose penalties for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) violations against covered health care providers in connection with their good faith provision of teleheal...

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