5 Tips on How to Complete a Risk Assessment
Are you worried about completing your HIPAA risk assessment? Many organizations are. To provide you with guidance, 5 tips on how to complete a risk assessment are discussed. [...]
Vaccine Passports and HIPAA
With states starting to issue vaccine passports, proving that a resident has been vaccinated against COVID, many have been asking, is this a HIPAA violation? To provide guidance, immunization [...]
OCR Fines Village Plastic Surgery for Stretching HIPAA Right of Access Rule
In late March of 2021, the Department of Health and Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) settled with New Jersey-based Village Plastic Surgery (VPS) for a potential violation [...]
$65,000 Right of Access Violation Settlement
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights recently announced its seventeenth settlement of an enforcement action under its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative. The [...]
Insider Healthcare Breach Compromises Patient Privacy
Petersburg Medical Center announced in a press release that an employee of the organization violated the hospital’s code of conduct and HIPAA patient privacy by accessing patient medical records [...]
7 Most Common HIPAA Compliance Issues
There are several aspects of HIPAA compliance that elude most businesses. However, failing to address the full HIPAA requirements puts healthcare businesses at risk of breaches and fines. To [...]
21st Century Oncology Settles HIPAA Data Breach Lawsuit
In late 2015, a cyberattacker accessed 21st Century Oncology’s (21CO) network database. As a result, 21CO was investigated by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for [...]
Sharp HealthCare Pays $70,000 to Settle Potential Right of Access Violation
In February of 2021, Sharp HealthCare, doing business as Sharp-Rees Stealy Medical Centers (SRMC), paid $70,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights [...]
Renown Health Fined $75,000 Under HIPAA Right of Access Initiative
Not-for-profit Nevada health system Renown Health, P.C., has agreed to pay $75,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to settle a [...]
Medicaid Data Breach Risks Patient Data
For seven years Florida Healthy Kids Corporation, a Medicaid health plan provider, left its online application platform unprotected, unbeknownst to them. More details on the Medicaid data breach are [...]
