The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reported 32 January healthcare breaches, affecting 462,856 patients. Of the reported incidents, there were 19 brea...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has modified HIPAA retail pharmacy transaction requirements to differentiate between partial fill and full refills of opioids and other Schedule II...
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 ...
A 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...
The 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...
On 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...
Issues 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...
Medical 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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