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“We’ve had a breach.” It’s a sentence nobody wants to hear, but when it happens to you, what to you do? If you’re in the healthcare industry, new federal regulations probably require you write a letter to the victims of the breach, or more. When and how quickly do you have to send a HIPAA/ ARRA notification? And what does it have to say?


The toughened health information privacy provisions included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) is intended to increase patients' acceptance of electronic medical records (EMRs).


Streamlining medical records has been a recurring theme of the Obama administration. Tucked away in the pending economic stimulus legislation, known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), is a provision which would create a breach notification requirement for health information breaches.