The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights released a set of proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which take aim at Right of Access rules and are designed to reduce...
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 announced it reached a $25,000 settlement with California-based Riverside Psychiatric Medical Group...
The Office for Civil Rights reached a settlement with the city of New Haven, Connecticut, including a $202,400 civil monetary penalty and a corrective action plan, following a...
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights announced it reached a $1 million settlement with Aetna to resolve potential HIPAA violations stemming from three...
The Office for Civil Rights announced yet another settlement under the 2019 HIPAA Right of Access Initiative. NY Spine Medicine will pay the agency $100,000 and agreed to a corrective...
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 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...
Many healthcare providers struggle with finding and retaining security staff, as well as budget constraints, which make it difficult to properly secure the enterprise. In...
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights reached a $2.3 million settlement with CHSPSC, which provides services to hospitals and...
The Office for Civil Rights reached a settlement with the Athens Orthopedic Clinic for $1.5 million over a 2016 data breach caused by the notorious hacking group...
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) in collaboration with the Office of Civil Rights released an update to the Department of Health and Human Services Security Risk Assessment Tool designed to...
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...
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights updated and renamed its former Health App Developer Portal as a HIPAA resource page for mobile health apps, APIs, and...
The Office for Civil Rights recently shared a detailed list of IT asset inventory steps, which can help covered entities and their business associates better fulfill the HIPAA Security Rule...
The Office for Civil Rights reached a settlement with Lifespan Health System Affiliated Covered Entity over the theft of an unencrypted laptop in 2017. The Rhode...
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights has reached a settlement with North Carolina-based Metropolitan Community Health Services, DBA Agape Health Services, over...
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 Office for Civil Rights issued a list of COVID-19-related cyber threat resources for covered healthcare providers to help the sector best prevent, detect, respond, and recover from privacy and...
