The Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA) announced the agency has revised the Confidentiality of...
Grays Harbor Community Hospital and Harbor Medical Group has reached a proposed $185,000 settlement with the 88,000 patients impacted by a June 2019 ransomware attack, which drove...
Ontario and British Columbia Information and Privacy Commissioners have concluded LifeLabs failed to protect the personal health information of the 15 million patients impacted by its...
Iowa Health System, doing business as UnityPoint Health, has reached a proposed $2.8 million settlement with the millions of patients impacted by two phishing-related data breaches in 2017 and...
A federal judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has sent a data breach lawsuit against Episcopal Health Services back to state level courts, saying it lacked the grounds...
The Office for Civil Rights released guidance for healthcare covered entities on the HIPAA-permitted ways providers can contact patients recovering from COVID-19 to inform them of blood and plasma...
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against accounting firm BST and Co. CPAs, over a ransomware attack that breached the data of 170,000 patients from Community Care Physicians in New York, first...
Georgia-based Aveanna Healthcare is facing a class-action lawsuit filed by more than 100 patients impacted by a monthlong data breach from 2019. Over 166,000 patients were affected by the security...
The healthcare sector relies heavily upon its relationships with third-party vendors and business associates, which are critical to ensuring uninterrupted patient care. However, given the vast number...
Zoom settled with New York Attorney General Letitia James on May 7, following a state-led investigation into the videoconferencing platform. James launched an investigation after a number of privacy...
The Office for Civil Rights issued a reminder to healthcare providers that even amid the COVID-19 crisis, the HIPAA Privacy Rule does not permit them to give site access to media and other film...
LabCorp shareholder Raymond Eugenio recently filed suit against the lab testing giant, as well as its 12 directors and executives, to recoup share value losses caused by two data breaches, first...
Ciitizen released its third Patient Record Scorecard, which found significant improvements in the number of providers in compliance with the HIPAA Right of Access rule.
In fact, the number of...
The Office for Civil Rights announced yet another enforcement discretion during the Coronavirus pandemic, lifting potential HIPAA penalties related to noncompliance for covered entities and business...
Apple recently announced the launch of a new COVID-19 screening app and website based on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In response, a group of Senators are looking into...
The Office for Civil Rights will waive penalties for HIPAA noncompliance against providers or business associates over the good faith use and disclosure of protected health information during the...
The Office for Civil Rights released guidance for how protected health information on patients exposed or infected with COVID-19 can be shared with first responders, such as law enforcement,...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights released a list of frequently asked questions to common concerns raised about its recent move to lift certain HIPAA penalties...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights announced it will not impose penalties for noncompliance with HIPAA regulations against providers leveraging telehealth...
Following President Donald Trump’s declaration of a nationwide emergency over the Coronavirus, or COVID-19, the Department of Health and Human Service Secretary Alex Azar issued a limited waiver...
