The HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT has proposed a new rule that is intended to advance...
The HIPAA breach notification requirements are important to know if an organization creates, receives, maintains, or transmits Protected Health Information...
The HIPAA Conduit Exception Rule is a source of confusion for many HIPAA covered entities, but it is essential that...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was signed into law in August 1996 and led to the development...
The new HIPAA Safe Harbor Law (HR 7898) was signed into law by President Trump in January 2021. It instructs...
Many covered entities want to take advantage of cloud storage services, but can Microsoft OneDrive be used? Is OneDrive HIPAA...
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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was a landmark piece of legislation that was originally intended to simplify the...
The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is producing a video presentation to help HIPAA-regulated entities implement “Recognized Security Practices.”...
Earlier this year, the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights issued a request for information (RFI) on how the financial penalties...
The answer to the question who enforces HIPAA is that there are a number of state and federal agencies that...
On January 5, 2020, President Trump added his signature to a bill (HR 7898) that amends the Health Information Technology...
The U.S Department of Health and Human Services has increased the civil monetary penalties for HIPAA compliance violations in accordance...
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Coffey Health System has agreed to a $250,000 settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve alleged violations of...
The Department of Health and Human Services has issued a notification of enforcement discretion regarding the civil monetary penalties that...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has announced its fourth largest HIPAA violation penalty has...
The Department of Health and Human Services is being sued by CIOX Health, a medical record retrieval company, over updates...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has a new chief privacy officer – Kathryn Marchesini, JD....
The Department of Health and Human Services has published its final rule on the Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient...
Our 2017 HIPAA enforcement summary details the financial penalties paid by healthcare organizations to resolve HIPAA violation cases investigated by...
A new bill (H.R. 4613) has been introduced to the U.S House of Representatives by Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Washington)...
The Senate is to vote on a national data breach notification bill – the Data Security and Breach Notification Act...
Two lawsuits have been filed against healthcare organizations over alleged HIPAA and HITECH Act violations. 60 Hospitals Named in Lawsuit...
An essential part of HIPAA compliance is reducing mobile device security risks to a reasonable and acceptable level. As healthcare...
The healthcare industry has embraced the cloud. Many healthcare organizations now use secure cloud storage services to host web applications...
Following the introduction of the HITECH Act in 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights...
Last month, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed it was mulling over updating its data breach portal –...
Hacking still the biggest cause of data breaches and the breach count has risen once again in 2017, according to...
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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires healthcare providers (and other covered entities) to implement reasonable administrative, technical,...
Since 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has been publishing summaries of healthcare data...
The new director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, Roger Severino, has hinted that...
Given the number of HIPAA 2017 audits that OCR has planned, the probability of any healthcare organization being selected for...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has slammed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for its lack of oversight...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights is to receive a budget increase of $4 million...
Over the course of the next year, OIG is expecting to increase oversight of the Department of Health and Human...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has recently issued a basic guide to HIPAA compliance;...
According to a recent article in Lexology, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has started...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has not used the HIMSS 2015 conference as a...
Next week, government department heads and industry leaders will meet at the 23rd National HIPAA Summit to give updates on...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights is tasked with policing HIPAA, and there have been...
The recent massive data breach at Anthem Inc., has caused HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules to come under the spotlight,...
OCR Director Jocelyn Samuels has revealed the expected round of HIPAA audits are could still be some time off. In...
Update: The Meaningful Use program was renamed in 2018 to the Promoting Interoperability program to highlight CMS´ focus on interoperability...
It has been a little over a year since the Omnibus Rule brought HIPAA legislation in line with HITECH, and...
Just over 12 months ago the HIPAA Omnibus Rule was introduced to plug a number of gaps in the legislation...
Two recent studies confirm that the healthcare industry has not invested sufficiently in IT and the general state of healthcare...
The Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services is a step closer to commencing the...
A recent survey conducted by eFax aimed to discover some of the main issues faced by HIPAA-covered entities when it...
The Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services has recently issued a report stating...
This year has seen a number of large data breaches which have exposed the Protected Health Information of millions of...
A new report released by the Experian credit bureau predicts that 2014 is likely to be a major year for...
The introduction of the Omnibus Final Rule, also known as the HIPAA Mega Rule due to the extent of that...
Eligible professionals who demonstrate meaningful use of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology qualify for incentive payments under the Meaningful...
The HIPAA Omnibus Rule was published on Jan 25, 2013 by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as...
Healthcare organizations must take steps to prevent confidential patient health data from being viewed, accessed or used by unauthorized individuals,...
The HIPAA Omnibus Rule (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 Omnibus Rule) was drafted in July 2010; however...
Financial penalties for healthcare organizations found in violation of HIPAA regulations are to be increased substantially as part of the...
The theft of a laptop computer from a healthcare center belonging to Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Massachusetts Eye...
In September 2009, following the incorporation of the requirements of the HITECH Act into HIPAA legislation, the Department of Health...
The introduction of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009 updated HIPAA, and as such...
The theft of a portable hard drive from an employee of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS)...
An announcement has been made by the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General that a settlement has now been reached...
The Office for Civil Rights has made its first enforcement action stemming from the HITECH Breach Notification Rule and has...
Two class action lawsuits have now been filed against the Sutter Health hospital system in Northern California after a burglary...
Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, has signed a new law to give Texas residents even greater protection than required by...
The Connecticut Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, has announced that a settlement has been reached with healthcare provider, Health Net, over...
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