An official with the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has been quoted as saying that the long-overdue final versions of both the HIPAA modification and the breach notification rules are “targeted” to be released in March.
 
In an interview with Healthcare Info Security, Sue McAndrew, OCR’s Deputy Director for health information privacy, said that OCR “is making every effort to publish the final rules on all of the remaining HITECH Act provisions.”
 
An HHS document known as the “unified agenda” listed both the March date and also a June target date for OCR’s final version of the Accounting of Disclosures rule, which may or may not still contain the controversial proposed rule on access reporting.