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The Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) 2016 Work Plan, released November 3, 2015, calls for increased scrutiny of protections of electronic protected health information (“ePHI”) with respect to “networked medical devices.” Furthermore, the OIG indicated its plan to determine the “extent to which hospitals comply with contingency planning requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)” regarding their use of electronic health records (“EHR”) systems. Thus, the OIG has indicated that there will be heightened focus on the HIPAA Security Rule, which addresses the administrative, physical and technical safeguards of ePHI (45 CFR Part 160 and Subparts A and C of Part 164).