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Safeguarding the Corporate Network Against Breaches through Information Governance

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While corporate leaders often view cybersecurity as a technical challenge, contributing author Phil Favro illustrates the legal and organizational dimensions of cybersecurity in this recent article. Favro emphasizes that...more

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Compliance Under Pressure: Audit Readiness for Healthcare Providers

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In today’s healthcare environment, compliance is a defining element of patient care quality, operational integrity, and public trust. Oversight from agencies such as the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the Centers for Medicare...more

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HIPAA News: HHS Getting Tough On ePHI Data Breaches

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On August 4, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced a record-setting settlement with Advocate Health Care Network (Advocate) for multiple potential violations of HIPAA...more

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Is Your HIPAA Compliance Program Ready for the FTC?

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Everyone in healthcare knows that the next round of HIPAA audits is coming. Covered entities and business associates have long been advised to review and update their HIPAA security risk analyses, have business associate...more

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NIST releases draft guide for use of mobile devices for medical providers

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cybersecurity center released a draft guide last week for health IT professionals to use to bolster security for the use of mobile devices in the health care industry....more

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Nevada Expands PI Definition under Data Breach Law

Becomes the fifth state to amend its data breach statute since January 2015 The definition of “personal information” (“PI”) just got a little bit bigger in the Silver State. On May 13, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval signed...more

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State Data Breach Notification Law Updates

State legislatures are not waiting for Congressional action on a national data breach notification standard. Montana — Montana has amended its 10-year old breach notification law (see Mintz Matrix) to expand the...more

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Health Care Legal News - October 25, 2012 • Volume 2, Number 9

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In This Issue: - Five Core antitrust Principles For mergers of health insurers By: James M. Burns. On July 9, WellPoint and Amerigroup, two prominent health insurers, announced that they intended to merge in a...more

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