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Security and Privacy
Which HHS Office is charged with protecting an individual patient's health information privacy and security through the enforcement of HIPAA
Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
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I can't find a mention of such a requirement in either the Privacy or Security rule. So I'm going to say No, not as a HIPAA requirement.
The four HIPAA standards that address administrative simplification are, transactions and code sets, privacy rule, security rule, and national identifier standards.
Which HHS Office is charged with protecting an individual patient's health information privacy and security through the enforcement of HIPAA
Privacy and Security
DoD 6025.18-R summarizes the implementation of the HIPAA privacy rule.