Compliance and Regulations

When a HIPAA complaint is submitted, what happens next depends on who it is filed with, the nature of the complaint, and whether the complaint is valid. After registering with a healthcare company or becoming … Read more

Health-ISAC has publicized a white paper to help guide healthcare CISOs planning to employ zero trust security architectures. The standard security approach is to set up border defenses in order to keep unauthorized persons out. … Read more

Florida Orthopaedic Institute has offered to pay $4 million to settle claims from patients impacted by a data breach in 2020. In April 2020, Musculoskeletal Institute, doing business as Florida Orthopaedic Institute, found that an … Read more

Cyberattacks on firms are growing year over year throughout all industry segments. Cyberattacks involving third parties also increased. From the perspective of a cyber threat actor, it is more practical to attack a vendor for … Read more

Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wrote to two major mental health app vendors and required replies regarding their practices regarding information collection and disclosure. There were a number of … Read more

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center has reported the compromise of the protected health information (PHI) of 1,290,104 individuals due to a data breach that happened at Eye Care Leaders, its electronic medical record provider. … Read more

The latest version of the HHS Security Risk Assessment (SRA) Tool has been released by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’ Office of the National Coordinator … Read more

The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is creating a video to support HIPAA-regulated entities in carrying out “Recognized Security Practices.” The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was lately modified … Read more

The law agency Morgan & Morgan filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Injured Workers Pharmacy (IWP) in relation to a breach of the personal records of … Read more

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA), American College of Physicians (ACP), and the Organization for the Review of Care and Health Applications (ORCHA) have worked together to make a new system for examining digital health technologies … Read more

A lawsuit has been filed against the in-home respiratory care provider, SuperCare Health, as a result of a cyberattack and data security breach report submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services on March … Read more

$50,000 Civil Monetary Penalty Issued to Dental Practice for Social Media HIPAA Violation OCR investigated Dr. U. Phillip Igbinadolor, D.M.D. & Associates, P.A., (UPI), a dental practice operating offices in Charlotte and Monroe, NC because … Read more

Chelan Douglas Health District located in East Wenatchee, WA, has reported that it encountered a cyberattack last July 2021 wherein the personal data and protected health information (PHI) of patients was stolen from its network. … Read more

Healthcare hacking incidents are continuously growing for a few years. Hacking/IT incidents increased by 45% between 2019 and 2020. In 2021, 66% of breaches involving unsecured electronic protected health information (ePHI) were due to hacking … Read more

The development, observance, and enforcement of HIPAA guidelines and procedures is the foundation of HIPAA compliance. If there are no policies and procedures to give instructions, employees of Covered Entities and Business Associates are going … Read more

The Houston Health Department has recently reported the compromise of personal data and COVID-19 test results of 10,291 people on the internet because of a technical problem with its webpage. The issue made it possible … Read more

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (HIPAA) Breach Notification Rule puts a rigid time frame on sending notifications to people whose protected health information (PHI) was breached or impermissibly disclosed. The max time limit … Read more

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has started a quick response survey of healthcare companies and business associates under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to obtain comments on their experiences sending data breach … Read more

Marietta Area Health Care Inc., dba Memorial Health System, is dealing with a class-action lawsuit with regards to a cyberattack and data breach that Memorial Health System discovered on August 14, 2021. As per the … Read more

The technology company Accellion based in Palo Alto, CA offered an $8.1 million settlement to handle a class action data breach legal action that was submitted on behalf of affected individuals of the attack on … Read more

The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) lately informed the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights concerning a data breach that impacted the protected health information (PHI) of 5,015 customers of … Read more

The COVID-19 pandemic has not led to any long-term modifications to HIPAA, however, it has seen unmatched flexibilities announced on a non-permanent basis to make it less complicated for healthcare companies and business associates that … Read more

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has released new guidance to make clear how the HIPAA Privacy Law can be applied to disclosures of protected health information (PHI) to … Read more

The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs has agreed to resolve a data breach investigation that identified violations of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act. … Read more

West Virginia University Health System is dealing with a class-action lawsuit because of a compromise of the protected health information (PHI) of 7,445 patients, however, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia has lifted … Read more

The HHS’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has published a notification to the healthcare and public health industry concerning a rise in financially inspired zero-day attacks, teaching mitigation strategies that must be implemented to … Read more

The protected health information (PHI) of 1,271,642 people was compromised and possibly stolen in two healthcare hacking events that were lately documented by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights. PHI … Read more

Ransomware attacks, hacks, and other IT security problems are the cause of major data breach reports sent to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, although data breaches concerning physical documents … Read more

A New Jersey infertility clinic has reached a settlement with the state and will pay a $495,000 penalty fee for its violation of the HIPAA and New Jersey laws as it did not implement appropriate … Read more

Lately, the U.S. Department of Justice has been pursuing healthcare criminal acts and investigations frequently entail the issuance of a HIPAA subpoena. The subpoena pressures HIPAA-regulated entities to give data including patient health records that … Read more

Horizon House, Inc. based in Philadelphia, PA provides mental health and residential treatment services. It reported a hacking incident that affected its IT systems resulting in the potential compromise of the protected health information (PHI) … Read more

The personal records of persons who got a COVID-19 test at a Walgreens pharmacy were exposed on the web as a result of vulnerabilities found in its COVID-19 test registration program. It is at this … Read more

Two DuPage Medical Group patients are filing a lawsuit against the healthcare company subsequent to a July 2021 ransomware attack whereby patients’ protected health information (PHI) was exposed. DuPage Medical Group encountered a ransomware attack … Read more

The personal information of 750,000 Hoosiers compiled during a COVID-19 contact tracing survey done by the Indiana Department of Health was compromised on the web and downloaded by a firm not approved to gain access … Read more

Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital (LIJFH) has begun informing a number of patients regarding an insider data breach that affected their health records. LIJFH mentioned in its breach notification letters that it discovered an … Read more

The Data Protection Authority of Luxembourg, Commission Nationale pour la Protection des Données (CNPD), has penalized Amazon.com with €746 million ($886 million) to settle its EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) violations. Since May 25, … Read more

CaptureRx, the healthcare administrative services provider is dealing with multiple class-action lawsuits for its failure to safeguard patient records, which was gotten by unauthorized people in a February 2021 ransomware attack. NEC Networks, also known … Read more

Four healthcare employees filed a lawsuit against Amazon because allegedly their Amazon Alexa devices possibly captured conversations without their intention or permission and might have caught health data protected by HIPAA. Amazon Alexa devices listen … Read more

The Texas Legislature followed what California and Maine had done in approving a bill requiring the Texas Attorney General to publish notices regarding personal data breaches that affect state residents on the public-facing web portal … Read more

A bipartisan group of senators has presented a federal data breach notification law- the Cyber Incident Notification Act of 2021 – that calls for all federal institutions, contractors, and companies that have command over critical … Read more

The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) has prompted President Biden to give more funds and support to strengthen the cybersecurity posture of the medical care industry to boost toughness against cyberattacks. In … Read more

There is a lot of misunderstandings concerning the case of questioning a person if they had a COVID-19 vaccine. Is it considered a HIPAA violation, especially pertaining to employers questioning their personnel to give evidence … Read more

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is preparing to modify and make updates to its guidance on carrying out the HIPAA Security Regulation and is looking for ideas from stakeholders on facets of … Read more

Devised by the Department of Health and Human Services as part of the 21st Century Cures Act, the information blocking and interoperability regulations became enforceable on April 5, 2021. These new regulations set out what … Read more

Montefiore Medical Center has found out that another employee accessed patient records without having any valid work reason. The report of New York hospital in February 2020 stated that an employee was identified to have … Read more

What is Texas HB 300, who needs to follow the legislation, and what are the fees and penalties for failing to comply? This post talks about these and other vital questions regarding Texas HB 300. … Read more

The Delaware Superior Court dismissed a legal action filed on behalf of affected individuals of a Brandywine Urology Consultants data breach because the plaintiffs failed to present proof showing they had experienced harm because of … Read more