OCR Releases HIPAA Compliance and Data Breaches Reports
The OCR’s annual reports on HIPAA Compliance and Data Breaches of PHI show 17% more HIPAA complaints and a 107% increase in large breaches over four years.
The OCR’s annual reports on HIPAA Compliance and Data Breaches of PHI show 17% more HIPAA complaints and a 107% increase in large breaches over four years.
It’s Time to Evaluate Your Healthcare Clinic’s Website Are your website analytics HIPAA compliant? This is the question healthcare organizations need to start asking. Social
Google says its new AI-powered search tool will help clinicians access information from different data sources quickly and reduce provider burnout.
What happens online stays online. It’s a fact of modern living. However, when that pertains to patient data, is enough being done to protect who has access to it?
This month in light of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a bulletin reminding HIPAA covered entities and their business associates of the ways they may share patient information during an outbreak of infectious disease or other emergency situations.
An apparent lack of understanding of what defines Protected Health Information (PHI) has cost one hospital system $2.175 million in fines to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
This week, American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), the billing collections vendor for both Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp, reported to both companies that the data of nearly 20 million customers may have been compromised.
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.
Three university personnel began the new year without paychecks after falling victim to a payroll phishing scam.
Train, train and retrain is at the top of PrivaPlan’s list of practical solutions for being HIPAA compliant.
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