Cory Fox on HIPAA

HHS Considers Amending HIPAA Privacy Rule to Permit Disclosure of Mental Health Information for Firearm Background Checks

Adding yet another wrinkle to the nation’s contentious gun control debate, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) soliciting information and public...more

5/8/2013 - Background Checks Data Protection Firearms Gun Laws HHS HIPAA Mental Illness PHI

Personal Smartphones: A Ticking HIPAA/HITECH Time Bomb?

In this brave new world of health information privacy, many industry experts and healthcare organizations have emphasized the need to secure portable electronic devices such as laptops, issued to employees. But a recently...more

4/10/2013 - Bring Your Own Device Data Protection Encryption HIPAA HITECH Mobile Devices Passwords

Can Covered Entities Utilize Text Messaging and Text Paging Without Violating HIPAA?

Text messaging allows healthcare providers to deliver simple, relevant, and customizable health information instantaneously to their patients, like reminders to obtain a vaccine, take a medication or come to an important...more

3/11/2013 - Data Protection HIPAA PHI Texting

Special Edition: Health Law Update - February 28, 2013

In This Issue: - A Baker's Dozen of Significant Changes From the HIPAA/HITECH Rule 1. Business Associates and Subcontractors 2. Breach Notification 3. Covered Entity Organizational Structures 4. Cloud...more

3/1/2013 - Business Associates Cloud Computing Covered Entities Data Breach Data Protection GINA HHS HIPAA HIPAA Omnibus Rule HITECH Notice Requirements OCR PHI Subcontractors

10 Fraud and Abuse Enforcement Trends You Can't Afford to Ignore in 2013

To paraphrase a famous quote, "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it," and providers who ignore the significance of the federal government's healthcare fraud enforcements efforts in 2012 do so at their...more

2/15/2013 - Affordable Care Act C-Suite Executives Compliance Enforcement Actions Fraud Fraud and Abuse HHS HIPAA HITECH Hospitals OIG Pharmaceutical Plea Agreements Sunshine Act

HIPAA, Gun Control, and President Obama's Executive Actions: What You Need to Know

All of the excitement surrounding the publication of the HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule may have overshadowed another very important development in health information privacy. On January 16, 2013, the Obama Administration released...more

2/8/2013 - Background Checks Executive Orders Gun Laws HIPAA HIPAA Omnibus Rule Mental Illness OCR PHI

OCR'S Breach Settlement: The First Ever Involving Less Than 500 Patients

The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) started 2013 with a bang by announcing that it had reached "the first settlement involving a breach of unprotected electronic protected health information (ePHI) affecting fewer than 500...more

1/21/2013 - Compliance Data Breach Data Protection Electronic Medical Records Encryption HHS HIPAA HITECH HONI Mobile Devices OCR Patient Confidentiality Breaches PHI Settlement

OCR's Breach Settlement the First Ever Involving Less than 500 Patients

OCR started 2013 with a bang by announcing that it had reached “the first settlement involving a breach of unprotected electronic protected health information (ePHI) affecting fewer than 500 individuals” with the Hospice of...more

1/7/2013 - Data Breach Data Protection Electronic Medical Records HIPAA HITECH HONI OCR PHI Settlement

OCR Releases De-Identification Guidance

The HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) recently released guidance intended to assist covered entities in understanding what de-identification is, the general process by which de-identified information can be created, and the...more

12/12/2012 - De-Identification HHS HIPAA OCR Safe Harbors

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