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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: July 2024

Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System said it experienced a breach impacting more than 1.27 million patients when a former employee of vendor Nuance Communications Inc., a Microsoft Corp. subsidiary, accessed patient...more

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New York State Department of Health Revises Proposed Hospital Cybersecurity Regulations

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In May 2024, the New York State Department of Health (“NYSDOH”) issued revisions to proposed regulations on hospital cybersecurity that it first released in November 2023. The proposed revised regulations are subject to...more

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HHS Bulletin on Online Tracking Technologies Declared Unlawful: What Covered Entities and Business Associates Need to Know About...

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Online tracking technologies are used by healthcare and hospital systems throughout the United States to analyze their website traffic, personalize content, and provide relevant information to website visitors, some of whom...more

Baker Donelson

Secondary Data Use Certification for Hospitals Now Available

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The value of data is on the minds of all industries right now, and health care is no different. The increased attention comes with the very significant shift in thinking, advanced by the attention to the advent of artificial...more

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HHS Enters Into First-Ever Ransomware Resolution Agreement and Corrective Action Plan

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") Office of Civil Rights ("OCR") has entered into its first settlement of potential Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ("HIPAA") violations arising out...more

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New York Governor Proposes Stringent Cybersecurity Regulations for Hospitals

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New York is the first state to propose cybersecurity requirements for all hospitals operating in the state to address patient safety and other cybersecurity related issues....more

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New York Proposes New Cybersecurity Regulations for Hospitals

This week, New York regulators announced that they plan to release proposed cybersecurity regulations for hospitals. The impetus for the proposed regulations is largely due to the increasing and devastating cyber attacks on...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: November 2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 11 (November, 2023) The American Hospital Association (AHA) is urging federal lawmakers to intervene with the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) so that hospitals and health systems can...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

HHS Hits Nation’s Largest Public Health Plan with Severe Corrective Action Plan

Paying the $1.3 million fine is the easy part. Complying with the CAP is a different undertaking. On Sept. 11, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced an...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Key Contractual Considerations for Health AI and Hospital Collaborations

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If artificial intelligence (AI) is the vehicle that will revolutionize health care, data is the fuel that will propel the revolution. Health AI startups have recognized an unprecedented opportunity to create a transformative...more

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Washington State Governor Signs Sweeping Health Privacy Act (My Health My Data Act) into Law

On April 27, 2023, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee signed a far-reaching health privacy law entitled the “My Health My Data Act” (the Act), which extends protections to consumer health data collected by entities not...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 2 (February 2023) DCH Health Systems, based in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said it fired an employee in December after a routine privacy audit revealed evidence that the worker had accessed some...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Securing Problematic 'Legacy' Devices: Be Part of Procurement, Push for Info

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 3 (March, 2022) - Typically a “legacy” describes the lasting impact of an influential person or movement, most often in a positive sense. Not so with medical devices. When legacy is applied...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 12. Privacy Briefs: December 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 12 (December, 2021) - Huntington Hospital in New York has sent notices to approximately 13,000 patients about an incident that happened in late 2018 and early 2019 involving a night shift...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 10. Privacy Briefs: October 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 10 (October, 2021) - A massive data breach at University of New Mexico (UNM) Health may have allowed a third party to obtain medical records from more than 600,000 patients—more than a...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Nick Culbertson on Compliance Breaches in Healthcare

Preventing data breaches is a critical task for all businesses these days, but it’s especially so in healthcare. No one wants to see health information disclosed, and the risks of a ransomware attack are enormous, literally...more

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2021 Health Care Predictions

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One year ago – in early 2020 – most of us did not know what COVID-19 meant (co-Corona; vi-Virus; d-disease; 19 – 2019); had no idea how to “zoom”; did not know what social distance meant; and, were largely unfamiliar with...more

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Life Sciences: Connected Medical Devices in the Cloud During COVID-19

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The Pandemic has fast-tracked the use of telehealth services. Hussein Akhavannik discusses how medical device companies are looking to add to or expand remote monitoring capabilities. However, some capabilities raise legal...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] March Research Compliance Academy - March 9th - 12th, San Diego, CA

HCCA's Health Care Research Compliance Academy is a three-and-a-half-day intensive training program focuses on compliance issues related solely to research. Its faculty is made up of experts in the field. With a wide range of...more

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MaHIMA Webinar: "Alexa, What Medication Am I Taking?" (Presentation)

"Open the pod door, HAL" • Commercial voice-activated intelligent personal assistants from Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft, among others, are growing in popularity. • A report from NPR and Edison Research states...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Cottage Health Settles with OCR for $3M

We previously reported that Cottage Health, a health care entity operating several hospitals in California, settled with the State of California for $2 million for a security incident that occurred in 2013. On February 7,...more

McDermott Will & Emery

2018 Digital Health Data Developments – Navigating Change in 2019

Data privacy and security legislation and enforcement saw significant activity in 2018 and early 2019. McDermott’s 2018 Digital Health Year in Review: Focus on Data report – the first in a four-part series – highlights...more

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New Cybersecurity Threat Identification and Prevention Guidance from HHS

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As a result of ongoing efforts under the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has partnered with public and private sector entities to develop guidance for healthcare entities seeking...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Impact of the New Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: 2019 Outlook

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• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Dec. 28, 2018, announced the release of the "Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients" that provides a "Call to Action" to make...more

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Hospitals In The Crosshairs: Managing Cybersecurity Risk (2)

In our last article, we showed you how to evaluate where your organization sits on the landscape of readiness and preparedness. In this concluding article, we identify concrete steps you can immediately employ to move your...more

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