Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 5 (May 2021) -
Given the hundreds of thousands of HIPAA covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs) and the two dozen or so enforcement actions the HHS Office for Civil Rights...more
5/7/2021
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Cooperation ,
Covered Entities ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Failure to Notify ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
HIPAA Privacy Rule ,
Investigations ,
OCR ,
PHI ,
Popular
Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 12 (December 10, 2020) -
In late September, Anthem Inc. entered into a $39.5 million settlement for a 2014 data breach that affected nearly 79 million individuals. About a week later,...more
12/18/2020
/ Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Hackers ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
HIPAA Breach ,
Medical Records ,
PHI ,
Settlement ,
State Attorneys General
Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 11 (November 2020) -
In her 14-plus years of investigating and blogging about hacking and breaches, “Dissent” has been yelled at, threatened with lawsuits and accused of being a criminal....more
11/10/2020
/ Criminal Liability ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cyber Incident Reporting ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Breach Plans ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Hackers ,
HIPAA Breach ,
OCR ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
PHI ,
Phishing Scams ,
Popular ,
Ransomware
Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 11 (November 2020)
- In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the HHS Office for Human Research Protections has issued an exception to the single institutional review board...more
10/24/2020
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Biomedical Companies ,
Clinical Trials ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Criminal Convictions ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Management ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Federal Funding ,
Fraud ,
Institutional Review Board (IRB) ,
Medical Research ,
National Institute of Health (NIH) ,
National Science Foundation ,
Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) ,
Professors ,
Public Health Emergency ,
Scientific Research ,
Universities
Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 2 (February 2020) -
The year is still young, but the federal government has announced a potentially far-reaching privacy effort that should catch HIPAA compliance officers’ attention. And...more
2/12/2020
/ Cybersecurity ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
EHR ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
NIST ,
OCR ,
OMB ,
ONC ,
Patient Access ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
Public Comment