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| November 01, 2003 | Schneider, Mary Ellen | COPYRIGHT 2003 International Medical News Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Complaints filed under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 privacy regulation are coming in at about 75 per week to the Department of Health and Human Service's Office for Civil Rights (OCR), said Susan McAndrew, senior advisor for HIPAA privacy policy in OCR, at a meeting sponsored by the health care education company Train for HIPAA. As of Sept. 16, OCR had received about 1,800 complaints, ...

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