HITECH Regs Coming in March?

Good news if true – note that this was not included in the Health and Human Services Regulatory Plan, published the same day as this Unified Agenda entry. So who knows? Those who do, as of this writing, haven’t told.

Courtesy of Dennis Melamed:

Regulations.gov Friday, January 20, 2012 Unified Agenda

 Abstract: The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights will issue final rules to modify the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Enforcement, and Breach Notification Rules as necessary to implement the privacy, security, enforcement, and breach notification provisions of Subtitle D of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (Title XIII of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009), and will modify the HIPAA Privacy Rule as required by section 105 of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008.

Priority: Economically Significant

Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Final Rule

Major: Undetermined Unfunded Mandates: No

CFR Citation: 45 CFR 160; 45 CFR 164 (To search for a specific CFR, visit the Code of Federal Regulations )

Legal Authority: PL 111-5, secs 13400 to 13410; 42 USC 1320d-9

Legal Deadline:

Action Source Description Date

Other Statutory Effective date of certain HITECH enforcement provisions 02/18/2009

Other Statutory Deadline for final GINA rule 05/21/2009

Other Statutory Deadline for Interim Final Rule on Breach Notification 08/17/2009

Other Statutory Effective date of certain HITECH privacy, security, and enforcement

provisions

02/18/2010

Other Statutory Effective date of certain HITECH enforcement provisions 02/18/2011

Timetable:

Action Date FR Cite

Final Action 03/00/2012

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No Government Levels Affected: No

Federalism: No

Agency Contact: Andra Wicks

Privacy Specialist, Office of Civil Rights

Department of Health and Human Services

Office for Civil Rights

200 Independence Avenue SW.

Washington , DC 20201

Phone: 202 205-2292

FAX: 202 205-4786

E-Mail: andra.wicks@hhs.gov