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More Fines Ahead for HIPAA Business Associates As HIPAA business associates (BAs), managed service providers (MSPs) doing work in the healthcare space are at risk of increased enforcement efforts [...]
The March 1st HIPAA breach report deadline is fast approaching. HIPAA regulation mandates that healthcare providers must report breaches of unsecured protected health information (PHI) to [...]
The threat of a HIPAA investigation is only one of the exposures that EHR vendors face when it comes to the implementation of privacy and security standards. One of [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued two HIPAA fines totaling $5.4 million. In both cases, OCR investigations revealed widespread violations [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced its first settlement for violating the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule with Presence Health for $475,000. [...]
The Atlanta, Georgia-based Peachtree Orthopedics reported that the records of over half a million patients were compromised in a cyberattack in September of 2016. The firm first notified patients [...]
In 2016 alone, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) levied over $25 million in fines. Enforcement has more than doubled since 2015's [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a $650,000 settlement with the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) in the wake of potential HIPAA [...]
U.S. District Court judges sentenced three former district managers of a pharmaceutical firm to a series of criminal HIPAA violations that have been linked to healthcare [...]
Martin Army Community Hospital has begun notifying patients of a potential HIPAA breach. The hospital, located in Fort Benning on the border of Georgia and Alabama, revealed that a [...]
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