Healthcare groups ask OCR for clarity, flexibility on HITECH cybersecurity practices

Earlier this spring, the Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services put out a call for comments about the cybersecurity provisions and monetary penalties stipulated by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act.

The 2009 HITECH Act, which was

, wasn’t just the primary driver of federal EHR incentives that enabled enormous uptake of health IT across the U.S. The…