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68,000 Patients Affected by Indiana Healthcare Breach
Methodist Hospitals based in Indiana experienced a phishing attack that affected 68,039. Phishing attacks occur when hackers send an email disguising themselves as trusted entities, often prompting recipients to click on a malicious link. [...]
Steps to Creating an Effective HIPAA Compliant Contingency Plan
Under the HIPAA Security Rule administrative safeguards requirement, covered entities and business associates must develop HIPAA compliant contingency plans. The two major objectives of a HIPAA compliant contingency plan are to [...]
HIPAA and Medical Record Copy Fees
Patients often request copies of their medical files. Traditionally, state law governed the subject of medical record copy fees. State laws typically permit providers to charge a per-page copy fee, of up to a [...]
Proposed Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Law Reforms
In October of 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced proposed changes to modernize and clarify the regulations that interpret the Physician Self-Referral Law (known as the “Stark [...]
Is AWS HIPAA Compliant?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud-based service used by healthcare providers and their vendors to store, process, and transmit protected health information (PHI). Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), AWS [...]
Beazley Breach Insights Report Notes Increased OCR Enforcement Activity
An August, 2019 report from the Beazley Group, a well-known Lloyd’s of London Risk Underwriter Participant, should put to rest the belief that Office for Civil Rights (OCR) enforcement activity with [...]
