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Ever since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was enacted, health care providers have developed policies and procedures to ensure their compliance in different ways - asking new patients to sign disclosures and requiring releases to be signed whenever records are requested...

On January 25, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the final omnibus rule which expands the provisions to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). This final rule sets forth reforms to the Privacy and Security Rules under HIPAA.