Abstract
The federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which under former President Donald Trump threatened to open up patient record protections under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA; see “In case you haven't heard,” ADAW, Jan. 11, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adaw.32940), has made good on its threat. The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), the “Standards for the Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (Privacy Rule),” in the Jan. 21 Federal Register — a day after President Joe Biden was inaugurated (and a day after the new administration placed a freeze on rulemakings).
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