In 2012 Accretive Health Care was banned from doing business in Minnesota for 2 – 6 years for a HIPAA violation. In 2018 New York State suspended a nurse’s...
HIPAA News
New research has found that while the number of patient records exposed per breach has varied widely, the number of health data breaches reported grew...
An administrative law judge has ruled that MD Anderson Cancer Center must pay $4.3 million to the HHS Office of Civil Rights due to multiple HIPAA violations...
Well, this isn’t a pretty picture. According to research by Protenus, roughly 1.3 million patient records were breached between January and March of this year...
OCR Director Severino Makes Policy from the Podium Speaking at the HIMSS health IT conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Roger Severino, Director of the US...
Now here’s one for the ages – a vendor taking HHS head-on. The vendor, CIOX Health, has sued HHS in an effort to stop the agency from enforcing HIPAA rules...
HHS has recently updated the HHS Wall of Shame…I mean the HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool (HBRT). Whatever you want to call the tool, you can find the most...
The Petya Malware (or NotPetya or ExPetya) has really hit healthcare in a big way. The biggest impact on the healthcare IT world was the damage it caused to...
Time for a quick roundup of HIPAA related tweets from around the Twittersphere. Check out these tweets and we’ll add in a bit of our commentary. What’s...
As some readers will know, HIPAA rules allow large organizations to separate out parts of the organization which engage in HIPAA-covered functions from those...