HHS Unveils Revamped Web Site on Privacy Rules, Enforcement May 7, 2007
When periodically updating compliance programs and how complaints are handled, clinical laboratories and other healthcare providers have a new resource to check to see if they are in synch with federal requirements protecting the privacy of personal health information. The privacy rules, required by HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996), took effect in April 2003.