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 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...
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...
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...
Ohio-based Management and Network Services (MNS) recently began notifying 30,132 patients that their data was potentially compromised after several employee email accounts were hacked for several...
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 nationwide public health emergency brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak has led to several Good Faith HIPAA waivers from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Office for Civil Rights. The waivers aim to fuel data sharing...
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...
About 131,825 patients of Brandywine Urology Consultants are being notified that their data was potentially compromised during a ransomware attack. The Delaware specialist is continuing to investigate...
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...
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...
