OCR Imposes $240,000 Fine in Ransomware Case
Providence Medical fined $240K for HIPAA violations after a ransomware attack. Learn key steps to protect patient data and avoid breaches.
Providence Medical fined $240K for HIPAA violations after a ransomware attack. Learn key steps to protect patient data and avoid breaches.
AMR paid a civil monetary penalty of $115,200 to the OCR for failing to provide a patient with timely access to her medical records.
This spring the HHS plans to begin HIPAA Security Rule updates to improve cyber resiliency and protect patient safety, based on its December concept paper.
The recent Change Healthcare cyberattack highlights the growing problem of cyber threats against healthcare organizations.
The HHS published a Notification of Enforcement Discretion Regarding HIPAA Civil Money Penalties that changes the interpretation of fines for violations defined under the HITECH Act, effectively reducing some of the annual limits.
Train, train and retrain is at the top of PrivaPlan’s list of practical solutions for being HIPAA compliant.
PrivaPlan’s HIPAA Certification Program is giving healthcare professionals access to what had once been next to impossible to find: a one-stop shop to become a certified HIPAA expert.
A HHS Administrative Law Judge has ruled that MD Anderson violated HIPAA and is requiring the Texas cancer center to pay $4.3 million in penalties to the OCR.
As the tax season gets underway, you can bet that cyber criminals are doing their tax preparations for W-2 phishing; they’re preparing to dupe hundreds of payroll and HR departments into providing W-2 data on their employees.
As the year comes to an end, there appears to be no end in sight for healthcare data hacks. An employee at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo recently fell for a phishing scam that potentially exposed the PHI of 650 patients.
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