Comments on: HHS Breach Notification Form On line http://vendorcompliance.vendormate.com/2009/10/06/hhs-breach-notification-form-on-line/ "Know Your Vendor" -- the pulse of vendor management Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:33:09 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: vendorcompliance http://vendorcompliance.vendormate.com/2009/10/06/hhs-breach-notification-form-on-line/#comment-921 vendorcompliance Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:32:38 +0000 http://vendorcompliance.vendormate.com/?p=438#comment-921 Mark -- my understanding is that you still submit a separate notice for breaches affecting less than 500 people, you just don't have to submit them as they occur. However, the HHS hasn't provided a log form to roll it into one submission, so they have an online form similar to the large scale breach notification that takes the breach information one at a time. Here's the page with the <a href="http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/administrative/breachnotificationrule/brinstruction.html" rel="nofollow">form and instructions.</a> Mark — my understanding is that you still submit a separate notice for breaches affecting less than 500 people, you just don’t have to submit them as they occur. However, the HHS hasn’t provided a log form to roll it into one submission, so they have an online form similar to the large scale breach notification that takes the breach information one at a time. Here’s the page with the form and instructions.

]]> By: Mark Jacobs http://vendorcompliance.vendormate.com/2009/10/06/hhs-breach-notification-form-on-line/#comment-920 Mark Jacobs Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:21:48 +0000 http://vendorcompliance.vendormate.com/?p=438#comment-920 164.408 of the HITCH Act requires (pharmacy) providers to maintain a log of breaches of protected health information and submit it to the "secretary" annually. Do you have a log for health care providers to use? To whom should the annual letter be sent? Thank you, Mark 164.408 of the HITCH Act requires (pharmacy) providers to maintain a log of breaches of protected health information and submit it to the “secretary” annually. Do you have a log for health care providers to use?
To whom should the annual letter be sent?

Thank you,
Mark

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