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October Healthcare Breaches Affected Nearly 624,000 Patients
October healthcare breaches, listed on the Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR) “wall of shame” affected 623,888 patients. Only healthcare breaches affecting more than 500 individuals are listed on the OCR’s site, making it likely [...]
What Role Does Law Enforcement Play in HIPAA?
The battle between individuals’ privacy rights and the needs of law enforcement, has raged for centuries in one form or another. When the HIPAA Privacy Rule was implemented, the authors of this [...]
Updated HHS SRA Tool Issued
In 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the federal agency for enforcing HIPAA, issued a Security Risk Assessment (SRA) tool through its Office for Civil Rights (OCR). In 2019, after several [...]
HIPAA Appointment Reminders
The HIPAA Privacy Rule permits covered entities to use and disclose protected health information (PHI) for treatment, payment, and healthcare operations activities. HIPAA appointment reminders constitute the treatment of an individual, [...]
Google Project Nightingale: Access to Patient Data Not a HIPAA Violation
Google is one of the largest public companies in the world. Ascension Medical Group is the largest Catholic healthcare system in the United States. A recent report in the Wall Street [...]
HIPAA Compliant Laptops
HIPAA regulations require healthcare organizations and individual care providers to take measures to keep patient data secure. Failure to do so can result in fines, if an organization suffers a breach of unsecured PHI. [...]
