Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 7 (July 2020) -
During the first six months of this year, 228 breaches affecting 500 or more individuals were reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), and of the top 20, five...more
Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 6 (June 2020):
Being a health care provider in the midst of a pandemic is complicated enough, between offering telehealth services, perhaps for the first time, and helping workers continue...more
6/15/2020
/ Business Associates ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Covered Entities ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Data-Sharing ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare Workers ,
OCR ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
PHI
Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 4 (April 2020)
In new guidance, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has authorized hospitals and other covered entities (CEs) that may be faced with demands from first responders and law...more
4/14/2020
/ Compliance ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Covered Entities ,
First Responders ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Law Enforcement ,
OCR ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
PHI ,
Public Health ,
Public Safety
Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 1 (January 2020) -
In the waning days of 2019, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) didn’t halt the HIPAA enforcement momentum it had built up during the last quarter of the year, dinging...more
1/13/2020
/ Ambulance Providers ,
Business Associates ,
Compliance ,
Corrective Action Plans (CAPs) ,
Corrective Actions ,
Covered Entities ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Encryption ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
HIPAA Breach ,
HIPAA Security Rule ,
OCR ,
PHI ,
Security Risk Assessments ,
Settlement
Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 1 (January 2020) -
Ah, those pesky residents. If you’re a teaching hospital, you can’t live without them, right? But sometimes living with them is mighty costly, as the University of...more
12/19/2019
/ Administrative Appeals ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Covered Entities ,
Data Breach ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Encryption ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
HIPAA Violations ,
Laptop Computers ,
Medical Research ,
Medical Residents ,
OCR ,
PHI ,
Settlement ,
Teaching Hospitals
Report on Patient Privacy 19, no. 12 (December 2019) -
Sentara Hospitals, a nonprofit group of 12 medical centers in Virginia and North Carolina, will implement a fairly minimal two-year corrective action plan (CAP) and...more
12/5/2019
/ Billing ,
Billing Errors ,
Business Associates ,
Business Associates Agreement (BAA) ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Compliance ,
Corrective Actions ,
Data Breach ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Health Care Violations ,
HIPAA Breach ,
Hospitals ,
Inadvertent Disclosure ,
Medical Records ,
OCR ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
PHI ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Settlement