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Rivkin Radler LLP

OCR Announces $800,000 HIPAA Settlement with Florida Health System

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced another settlement for alleged violations of HIPAA. OCR investigated BayCare Health System, which serves central Florida, after a...more

Saul Ewing LLP

HHS OCR Continues Active HIPAA Enforcement with Three New Settlements

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In the past several weeks, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS"), Office for Civil Rights ("OCR") has announced settlements with three health care organizations — Comstar, LLC ("Comstar"); Guam Memorial...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Health Record - Healthcare Law Insights, V 2, Issue 5, April 2025

Welcome to our fifth issue of 2025 of The Health Record -- our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. In this edition, we look at the effect tariffs could have on pharmaceuticals, the rise in healthcare facilities as the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

PIH Health Settles HIPAA Violations for $600,000

PIH Health, a health care entity located in California, suffered a data breach in June 2019 when 45 employee email accounts were compromised in a targeted phishing campaign. The accounts contained the protected health...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Northeast Radiology Settles with OCR

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced on April 10, 2025, that it has settled alleged HIPAA Security Rule violations with Northeast Radiology for $350,000....more

Hogan Lovells

French DPA (CNIL) has launched a public consultation on the security of patients’ medical records

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In the context of a significant increase in data breaches and cyber-attacks impacting hospitals, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) has launched a series of investigations and issued several formal notices to...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

Warning! ChatGPT Exploit Used by Threat Actors in Cyber Attacks

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Members of the health care and financial industries, along with other industries that hold sensitive data, are warned that a ChatGPT vulnerability is being actively exploited by threat actors to attack security flaws in AI...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - January 2025 #3

News Briefs - Federal Judge Rejects Attempt to Stop Nursing Home Staffing Rule - A federal judge has rejected a bid by 20 Republican state attorneys general to block enforcement of a new rule adopted by the outgoing Biden...more

J.S. Held

[Webinar] The Healthcare Scare of Ransomware: Business Interruption - January 22nd, 10:00 am - 11:00 am CT

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Cyberattacks and technology disruptions in healthcare don’t just cost organizations financially — they can threaten patient safety and put organizational reputations at risk. How ready is your organization for a potential...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Big Changes Proposed for the HIPAA Security Rule

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued an unpublished Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that strengthens the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule and, if...more

Cozen O'Connor

Change Healthcare Faces Nebraska Lawsuit After Cyberattack

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Nebraska AG Mike Hilgers filed a lawsuit against Change Healthcare Inc. and its owners and operators (collectively, “Change”)—which provide a data clearinghouse used by healthcare providers, pharmacies, and insurers—alleging...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: November 2024

Change Healthcare Inc. has amended its initial breach report to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to state that 100 million individuals were impacted by its mammoth ransomware attack and breach. However, as of Oct. 24,...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

New York Focuses on Healthcare Cybersecurity: Recent Regulatory and Enforcement Activities

The healthcare sector has seen an alarming uptick in cybersecurity incidents, including ransomware attacks, in recent years. In response to these cybersecurity threats, New York State is ramping-up efforts to protect patient...more

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New York Imposes Stringent Cybersecurity and Cyber Incident Reporting Obligations on Hospitals

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New York recently passed new cybersecurity regulations for hospitals licensed in New York to enhance patient safety and cybersecurity....more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - October 2024 #1

News Briefs - Study Says Telemedicine Improved Quality of Doctors' Patient Care - Telemedicine helped improve the quality of doctors' patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic and has the potential for improving physician...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - August 2024 #4

News Briefs - Statistics Show Upward Trend in Healthcare Data Breaches - Healthcare data breach statistics clearly show there has been an upward trend in data breaches over the past 14 years, with 2021 seeing more data...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - August 2024 #1

News Briefs - CMS Increases Acute Care Inpatient Hospital Payments by $2.9B - HHS has finalized the fiscal year 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System rule. The rule...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - June 2024 #4

News Briefs - Survey Finds Decline in Telehealth Use Across Most Groups in 2022 - The percentage of adults who used telehealth in the past year dropped from 37 percent in 2021 to 30.1 percent in 2022, with declines observed...more

Sands Anderson PC

Ransomware Increasingly Targets Medical Providers

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Ransomware continues to make headlines in the data security world, and with good reason.  A report issued earlier this year by the Director of National Intelligence highlighted the continued surge in ransomware attacks in the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

UHG’s Breach Response May Prove Enlightening for Others

Organizations typically deal with ransomware attacks out of the public eye, but the massive scale of United Healthcare Group’s (UHG) February breach made that an impossibility. UHG CEO Andrew Witty was recently on the hot...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Cyber Resilience After the Change Healthcare Breach

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More than two months after the February 2024 Change Healthcare cyber-ransom attack, the healthcare industry continues to grapple with the fallout, creating significant challenges, disruptions, and outages to the healthcare...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - May 2024 #1

News Briefs - Hospitals, Physicians at Odds Over FTC Noncompete Ban - The Federal Trade Commission's final rule banning noncompetes nationwide has implications for hospitals and physician practices, with representatives from...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Managing the Impacts of the Change Healthcare Cyberattack

UnitedHealth Group (“UHC”) announced on April 22, 2024, that it had paid a ransom to protect patient data potentially acquired in a late February cyberattack on its subsidiary Change Healthcare (“CHC”). In its announcement,...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Hackers Increasingly Leveraging Threats to Patients to Pressure Health Organizations to Pay Ransom

Cyberhackers—potentially frustrated by their limited ability to extort ransom from health care entities in attacks—have started extorting the patients themselves, threatening them with the release of information or...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: April 2024

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) is seeking comment on a proposed rule to implement reporting requirements for critical infrastructure entities, including health care entities, on cyberattacks and ransomware...more

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