HIPAA and Meaningful Use Now Tightly Intertwined The provisions of the two final rules of Stage 2 of Meaningful Use released last week have attracted significant attention, especially the rule demanding retention of patient engagement obligations. However, what is more striking is how these two final rules are intertwined with the privacy and security requirements of HIPAA, although many commenters on the proposed rules have asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to remove redundancies. in Public bookmarkswith complianceelectronichealthhealthcarehippainmeaningfulmeaningful-use-of-ehrofrecordsuse