Indiana Healthcare Group Hit by Third-Party Data Breach
The protected health information (PHI) of more than 30,000 US patients may have been exposed in a data breach involving Managed Health Services (MHS) of Indiana. [...]
HHS OCR Sets Health Information Privacy as 2019 Priority
Cybersecurity and data privacy have become increasingly critical issues facing healthcare over the past few years, and it seems that HHS OCR is ready to respond. The Department of [...]
How to Maintain HIPAA Compliance in Deskbound Technology
HIPAA compliance must be improved in the cloud but also be optimized in deskbound technology. You can take steps toward compliance through improvements of your security [...]
What Are the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Rules?
The HIPAA Administrative Simplification Rules establish national standards for electronic transactions and HIPAA code sets to maintain the privacy and security of protected health information (PHI). [...]
Anthem Pays Record $16 MM HIPAA Fine for Largest U.S. Health Data Breach in History
Anthem, Inc. will pay $16 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to settle violations of the [...]
HIPAA Compliance Checklist 2019
Looking for a simple way to assess your HIPAA compliance? Download our new HIPAA Compliance Checklist for 2019! Compliancy Group's annual HIPAA compliance checklist gives you a robust summary [...]
What Does OCR Guidance Say About HIPAA Physical Safeguards?
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued a letter calling the HIPAA physical security safeguards for electronic protected health [...]
UMass to Pay $230,000 in Attorney General HIPAA Fines
Another Attorney General HIPAA fine has been levied, this time for data breaches that have left thousands of Massachusetts residents' personal data exposed. UMass Memorial Medical [...]
$1 Million Boston HIPAA Fine Levied for Illegally Filming Patients
Close to $1 million in HIPAA fines have been levied against three Boston-area hospitals for serious HIPAA violations after illegally filming patients for a local TV series. The Department [...]
1.4 Million Patient Records Breached in HIPAA Phishing Attack
The largest data breach of 2018 (so far) has been claimed by a Midwestern health network. UnityPoint Health (UPH) has reported its second data breach of [...]
