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HHS OCR Director Leon Rodriguez's Dialogue on HIPAA/HITECH Compliance

by Kimberly M. Wong | BakerHostetler on 5/23/2013

“HIPAA is a valve, not a blockage,” stated HHS OCR Director Leon Rodriguez, at the OCR/NIST 6th Annual Conference on Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security....more

Data Breach at Gunpoint

by Amy Malone | Mintz Levin - Privacy & Security on 4/25/2013

You might think that if you lock your backup tapes in a safe they are protected from a data breach, but Kmart’s recent data breach proves that’s not the case. Last month, a person held a Kmart employee in Little Rock,...more

Enough With The Unencrypted Portable Devices Says The Ontario IPC

by Tim Banks | Dentons on 4/23/2013

The #1 item on my “tough love list” for New Year’s 2013 was “Enough of the Unencrypted USB Keys“. You won’t have been alone if you didn’t tackle that in the first quarter of 2013. ...more

Personal Smartphones: A Ticking HIPAA/HITECH Time Bomb?

by Cory Fox | BakerHostetler on 4/10/2013

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

Birmingham Medical News: I-Phone Or HIPAA-Phone?

by Kelli Carpenter Fleming | Burr & Forman on 4/9/2013

With the recent issuance of the long-awaited final rule by the Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS"), the protection of patient information has been a hot topic among the health care industry the past few months....more

Safeguards against Data Security Breaches (Part One) [Video]

by Robert Brownstone | Fenwick & West LLP on 3/19/2013

With data security breaches dominating the headlines and a rising number of employees taking advantage of BYOD, or bring your own device to work policies, businesses have found themselves vulnerable to targets by hackers,...more

Breach of Privacy in the Cloud (U.S.)

by Field Law on 3/12/2013

In 2012, LinkedIn made headlines as a result of a significant data breach. The passwords and email addresses of over 6 million LinkedIn users were hacked and posted online. Encryption and security was improved by LinkedIn in...more

McAfee & Taft Healthcare Industry Alert: New HIPAA regulations - Begin your compliance review now

by Patricia Rogers | McAfee & Taft on 2/4/2013

On January 17, 2013, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a final rule amending the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy and security regulations and implementing the Health...more

Enough Already: Encrypt Those Portable Devices

by Tim Banks | Dentons on 1/30/2013

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Data Privacy Day (January 28) that it had reached a settlement with a cord blood bank in respect of the loss of nearly 300,000 customers’ personal information. The lost...more

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

by Cory Fox, Theodore Kobus III, Lynn Sessions | BakerHostetler on 1/21/2013

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

Five Data Governance Matters To Address In 2013

by Tim Banks | Dentons on 1/2/2013

It is 2013, and time for a bit of tough love. Here are five data governance matters that need your attention as soon as possible....more

Health Care Legal News - October 25, 2012 • Volume 2, Number 9

by Dickinson Wright on 10/30/2012

In This Issue: - Five Core antitrust Principles For mergers of health insurers By: James M. Burns. On July 9, WellPoint and Amerigroup, two prominent health insurers, announced that they intended to merge in a...more

January 25, 2012 - The Federal Crimes Watch Daily

by McNabb Associates, P.C. on 1/25/2012

The Federal Crimes Watch Daily is a daily newspaper that discusses current federal criminal issues written by a federal criminal defense attorney....more

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HHS OCR Director Leon Rodriguez's Dialogue on HIPAA/HITECH Compliance

Data Breach at Gunpoint

Enough With The Unencrypted Portable Devices Says The Ontario IPC

Personal Smartphones: A Ticking HIPAA/HITECH Time Bomb?

Birmingham Medical News: I-Phone Or HIPAA-Phone?

Safeguards against Data Security Breaches (Part One) [Video]

Breach of Privacy in the Cloud (U.S.)

McAfee & Taft Healthcare Industry Alert: New HIPAA regulations - Begin your compliance review now

Enough Already: Encrypt Those Portable Devices

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

Five Data Governance Matters To Address In 2013

Health Care Legal News - October 25, 2012 • Volume 2, Number 9

January 25, 2012 - The Federal Crimes Watch Daily

Safeguards against Data Security Breaches (Part One) [Video]

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