Arizona-based Dignity Health, doing business as St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center (SJHMC), has agreed to corrective actions and a $160,000 enforcement action with the...
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Manatt Health recently released a consumer Health Data Privacy Framework designed to address some of the gaps in existing health data privacy...
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...
The American Medical Association unveiled a set of privacy principles for non-HIPAA covered entities, designed to empower consumers with more control over the health data collected about them. AMA will...
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...
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 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,...
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...
eHealth Initiative and the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) are partnering on the development of a consumer privacy framework for health data not currently protected by HIPAA.
The Building a...
Citizens Council for Health Freedom is calling on state legislators to defend the Minnesota Health Records Act (MHRA) following reports of some major healthcare partnerships with large tech companies,...
NIST recently released its privacy framework designed to provide organizations with privacy protection strategies to improve their current methods for using and protecting sensitive data,...
The past year in health IT security was one of the worst seen in recent years, with multiple breaches each impacting several millions of patients. Patients are also growing increasingly aware of their...
Emergency situations and natural disasters, such as hurricanes, pandemics, or mass casualties, can quickly overwhelm healthcare systems. The last thing on people’s minds in those situations is complying with the HIPAA Privacy...
Did an emergency medical services (EMS) worker in Roane County, Tennessee, commit a HIPAA violation with a Facebook post that described the peculiar location of an emergency response—a...
HIPAA rules are meant to protect patient information, but what happens when there is a law enforcement investigation? Are police officers allowed to demand PHI without a warrant?
That issue was...
Database owners are now required to ensure medical record security by safeguarding healthcare data stored in their systems, according to a recently updated Indiana bill.
Senate Bill 549 changed the...
While more healthcare organizations are utilizing electronic health records (EHRs) and adding to the increase in healthcare interoperability finding a health IT option that provides better patient care and keeps PHI secure is not always...
Individuals in the health information management (HIM) field play a critical role in covered entities’ approaches to data security, especially HIPAA compliance.
HIM professionals are often...
No healthcare organization wants to compromise patient privacy, and HIPAA rules were designed to ensure that this does not occur.
Covered entities of all sizes should understand how the HIPAA...
HIPAA regulations are designed to keep healthcare organizations compliant, ensuring that sensitive data - such as patient PHI - stays secure. Should a healthcare data breach occur, covered entities or...