Catherine Short speaks with Sheba Vine, Attorney and Senior Manager in the Global Privacy Office at Exact Sciences Corporation, on the topic of “Recent Developments in Health Information Privacy: HIPAA Right of Access.” We will review recent developments including OCR Enforcement Highlights, HIPAA Right of Access & Ciox Health Decision, NPRM, and 21st Century Cures Act Information Blocking Regulation.   TRANSCRIPT   Recent Developments in Health Information Privacy: HIPAA Right of Access * 22:44 SUMMARY KEYWORDS covered entity, access, request, compliance, patient, blocking, required, information, ocr, hipaa, rule, individual, hhs, phi, practices, exceptions, records, health care providers, provider, onc SPEAKERS Catherine Short, Sheba Vine   Catherine Short  00:00 Welcome! and, let’s “1st Talk Compliance”. I’m Catherine Short, Partnership Marketing Manager at First Healthcare Compliance. Thanks for tuning in. This show is brought to you by First Healthcare Compliance as part of our commitment to provide high quality complimentary educational resources.  We help create confidence among compliance professionals throughout the United States.  Please show your support by taking a moment to provide a review on Google, Facebook or iTunes.  You can also follow us on Instagram, Twitter and subscribe to our YouTube channel.   Catherine Short  00:40 On today’s episode, we are speaking with Sheba Vine, Attorney and Senior Manager in the Global Privacy Office at Exact Sciences Corporation, on the topic of “Recent Developments in Health Information Privacy.” We will review recent developments including OCR Enforcement Highlights, HIPAA Right of Access & Ciox Health Decision, NPRM, and 21st Century Cures Act Information Blocking Regulation.   Catherine Short  01:10 Before we begin, I would like to mention this episode’s First Healthcare Compliance Super Ninja Michele Miller, CMM, Practice Manager at Valentino Spine and Orthopedics. Michele says “Working in a medical office has challenges every day. The most important thing that I tell my staff (and remind myself daily) is to be honest and true to yourself and others. Also, to remember that we are in the service industry and it is our responsibility to make a difference. Sometimes it is just a smile that can brighten another’s day. Kindness and compassion go a long way.” Congratulations Michele!  Our team is honored to have the privilege of working with you.   Catherine Short  01:54 Hello, Sheba, thank you so much for joining me today on 1st Talk Compliance. We’re so happy to speak with you today.   Sheba Vine  02:03 Hi, Catherine, thank you so much for having me.   Catherine Short  02:06 It’s my pleasure. And I’m really, really excited to talk to you today about our topic. So there are a lot of settlements from OCR regarding a patient’s access to their medical records. What’s happening here and can you talk more about the right to medical information?   Sheba Vine  02:26 Yes, definitely. That is a really good question because the government is certainly focused on making sure covered entities get this area right. So the Office of Civil Rights, the Office of the Department of Health and Human Services that enforces HIPAA has received a large number of complaints alleging HIPAA violations and one of the top complaints the OCR typically receives concerns of covered entities failure to provide a patient or PHI when it is requested by either the patient or their personal representative. So in 2019, OCR announced its focus on enforcing the right of access known as a Right of Access Initiative. I’m quoting the former OCR director Roger Severino here who stated that for “too long healthcare p...