Any entity handling personal electronic healthcare information therefore should take the initiative to ensure compliance.

There’s more than a virus in the air – there’s malware and spyware too. Our Health Care and Cybersecurity Preparedness & Response Groups team up to list proactive steps HIPAA covered entities and ...

HIPAA currently provides that a civil money penalty may not be imposed with respect to an act “ if the act constitutes an offense punishable ” under the HIPAA criminal penalties provisions. Effective ...

Levitate, the relationship-first marketing platform combining powerful software with a dedicated team behind it, today announced that it has successfully attested to meeting the requirements of the ...

The most eagerly awaited — if not anxiety-laden — set of regulations in the healthcare spectrum arrived late Thursday: HHS issued modifications to the HIPAA ...

Covered entities, including employer sponsored health plans, should brace for audits and enforcement of the Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification rules by the ...

Patients want their healthcare information to stay private. Healthcare provider organizations want to keep patient data secure. But the need for interoperability and sharing of protected health ...

The HITECH provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act gave the HHS Office for Civil Rights new and stronger powers to enforce HIPAA privacy regulations and shifted HIPAA security ...

If you want to foretell what is on the 2016 agenda for the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights, look to its recent emphasis on enforcement. See Also: When Identity ...

HIPAA requires a covered entity to implement sanctions for violations of policies and procedures. A covered entity must have appropriate sanctions and apply appropriate sanctions against its workforce ...

Time to rub the dust off my crystal ball to predict what we might see from the Office for Civil Rights' in 2015 when it comes to regulatory activities and enforcement of the HIPAA privacy, security ...

The UBIT HIPAA Protected Health Information Security Policy guides UBIT functions that are subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accessibility Act (“HIPAA”) compliance requirements. This ...