HIPAA Patient Right to Amend PHI
It seems hard to imagine this now, but three decades ago, before HIPAA was signed into law, a patient’s legal right to amend or correct a mistake in his or her records was severely limited. Only ...
Read MoreIt seems hard to imagine this now, but three decades ago, before HIPAA was signed into law, a patient’s legal right to amend or correct a mistake in his or her records was severely limited. Only ...
Read MoreA recent report found breaches caused by healthcare system misconfiguration due to human error in cloud infrastructures increased by 424%. The idea of security breaches often br...
Read MoreThe Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) describes how organizations must keep protected health information (PHI) secure. So how exactly are employee passwords supposed to be...
Read MoreOn January 23, 2020, the D.C. District Court narrowed an individual’s right to request that HIPAA covered entities furnish the individual’s own protected health information (“PHI”) to a thi...
Read MoreIssues with HIPAA and nursing home care have arisen over disclosure of medical records of deceased residents. Several years ago, a federal appeals court had to decide a case involving HIPAA and nur...
Read MoreMedical data breaches are on the rise, making patient data security one of the most pressing issues in the healthcare industry. In 2019, more than 41 million healthcare records were either exposed,...
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