Medical Records Company Settles with 16 States and OCR in HIPAA Lawsuit
Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE), a medical records company, and its subsidiaries recently settled with 16 different states’ Attorney Generals (AG)…
HHS Issues Final Rule for Conscience Rights in Health Care
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently issued a final rule that clarifies…
OCR Reiterates Direct Liability Authority Over Business Associates
Ten ways BAs are directly liable for HIPAA violations The HITECH Act made business associates (BA) of covered entities directly…
For 2019 HIPAA is the Highest Compliance Officer Priority
75% of Compliance Officers are responsible for HIPAA Privacy The Ninth Annual Healthcare Compliance Benchmark Survey (Survey) was conducted by…
Mitigating Unauthorized Disclosures of PHI by Employees or Former Employees
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently submitted two reports to select congressional…
OCR Focusing on Enforcing Patients’ Rights to Access
In a Bloomberg Law article regarding last month’s National Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Summit, reporter James Swann…
HIPAA Designated Privacy Officers
Under HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) every HIPAA covered entity must have a designated Privacy Officer.…
OCR Solicits Comments on HIPAA Rules to Improve Coordinated Care
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is soliciting comments on the modification of…
ONC and OCR Update Security Risk Assessment Tool.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and Office…
HIPAA Mobile Device Security
Using mobile devices such as smart-phones and tablets to communicate with patients has become common. This growing dependency on mobile…
Recent ALJ Ruling on HIPAA Violation Results in Over $4 Million in Penalties
HHS Administrative Law Judge Rules Against The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center for Over $4.3 Million in Penalties…
Massachusetts Doctor Convicted Of Criminal HIPAA Violation
Summary of Massachusetts Doctor’s HIPAA Violation & Penalty A federal jury in Massachusetts convicted a Springfield gynecologist, Dr. Rita Luthra,…