Joseph Lazarotti writes:
To date, State Attorneys General (State AGs) in at least four states (Connecticut, Indiana, Minnesota, Vermont) have exercised their authority to enforce the HIPAA privacy and security rules as granted by the Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health (HITECH) Act (pdf), part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Following a nationwide live training campaign, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is continuing its efforts to train State AGs by making training materials available online.
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