A lawsuit has been filed against Wilmington Surgical Associates in response to a ransomware attack in October. Allegedly, the Netwalker hacking group stole a trove of 13GB of data from the North...
The Office for Civil Rights announced another enforcement discretion amid the pandemic, lifting penalties for potential HIPAA violations related to the good faith use of online or web-based scheduling...
New York-based Excellus Health Plan, doing business as Excellus BlueCross BlueShield and Univera Healthcare, agreed to a $5.1 million civil monetary penalty and a corrective action plan with the...
The University of Cincinnati Medical Center in Ohio has agreed to a $65,000 settlement and a corrective action penalty with the Office for Civil Rights to resolve a potential violation of the...
The Office for Civil Rights announced it reached a settlement with Rajendra Bhayani, MD, a private practice otolaryngology specialist based in Regal Park, New York for $15,000 and a corrective action...
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights settled with Premera Blue Cross for $6.85 million and a corrective action plan, after an audit into the insurer’s...
The Office for Civil Rights closed investigations and announced settlements with five providers over separate HIPAA right of access violations, which brings the total number of...
Nearly all webpages tied to the COVID-19 pandemic and designed to help individuals find information about the coronavirus contain code that transfers data to third parties, which can pose serious...
The patient data privacy lawsuit brought against Google and the University of Chicago Medical Center was dismissed by a federal judge in Illinois on September 4, ruling that patient who filed the...
Just one in 10 American patients believe health insurance companies have access to their personal spending and streaming habits, although reports have shown insurers routinely search private and public...
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and eHealth Initiative and Foundation (eHI) released its draft consumer health data privacy framework designed to define data in need...
In its Fiscal Year 2021 minibus package passed this week, the House of Representatives once again voted to remove a provision that effectively bans providing federal funds to the...
Several members of Congress are pressing White House Advisor Jared Kushner amid privacy concerns, after reports showed the White House has assembled technology and healthcare firms to develop an...
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...
Sens. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, and Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, reintroduced the Protecting Jessica Grubbs Legacy Act, a privacy bill designed to modernize 42 CFR Part 2 regulations to...
Walgreens announced on Friday that it inadvertently exposed the personal messages stored on its messaging app due to an internal error.
On January 15, officials said they first discovered an error in...
Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, unveiled legislation on June 14, focused on closing privacy gaps in HIPAA, which does not currently cover tech like health apps,...
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...
McAlester Regional Health Center (MRHC) in Oklahoma is being sued for an alleged HIPAA violation for sharing information on a boy’s drowning with his biological mother, reported the Pauls Valley...
The use of wearable health technology is expected to expand substantially within the next few years.
Wearable devices offer many health tracking capabilities, including measuring heart rate, number of...