The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it will update the HIPAA Security Rule in 2024 and will ask Congress for new laws and resources to...
HIPAA Penalties
During a conversation with a friend earlier this week discussing healthcare information security, she made one very important point. She is concerned about...
Today, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the news that enforcement of HIPAA penalties around...
Why is There Still So Much Confusion, Denial, and Deception? The Office for Civil Rights just announced a $ 3 million penalty against Touchstone Medical...
I’d been meaning to post this for a while, but got a little distracted with all the other news. Better late than never. HHS and OCR have changed the...
A group providing hospitalist physicians on contract has learned the hard way that sharing PHI with vendors is a no-no unless the vendor has signed a business...
The people at DataMotion, cloud based HISP providers, sent me the following infographic covering the HIPAA data breaches. It’s a good reminder of the...
The headline of a tech startup blog I read pretty regularly caught my attention today, “Another day, another Chinese hack: 4.5M medical records...
Lately I’ve been seeing a number of really lazy approaches to making sure a company is HIPAA compliant. I think there’s a pandora’s box just...
In a LinkedIn response to my post about multiple patient portal logins I got this insightful commentary from Stuart Jarvis on the challenges of patient portals...