Pursuant to the retirement of Medical Records Manager Cathy Beatty, Assistant Director of IT Matt Jewett will serve as the interim HIPAA Privacy Officer for the college. In that capacity, he will conduct random privacy walkthroughs of the clinic as well as conduct regular audits of patients’ electronic health records to investigate any instances of improper access. Most importantly, Matt will serve as one of the people to report any suspected breaches of the HIPAA Privacy Rule regulations. To facilitate the reporting process, we have created a general e-mail address OPT-HIPAAPrivacyandSecurityOfficer@osu.edu that will simultaneously notify the privacy officer and security officer, currently served by IT Director Alex Vu. The following are excerpts from the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) website to highlight some important reminders of the HIPAA statute.