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Office of Civil Rights › Electronic Medical Records › Data Breach

News & Analysis as of May 23, 2013

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Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

A Detailed Analysis of Changes to HIPAA and the Implications for Healthcare Providers and Others in the Healthcare Industry: HIPAA...

by Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC on 2/4/2013

Changes to the HIPAA Security Rule Background: The HIPAA Security Rule protects electronic PHI by requiring Covered Entities to implement certain administrative, physical, and technical safeguards surrounding...more

BakerHostetler

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

Leonard, Street and Deinard

Health Law Alert: Deficient Data Security On Mobile Devices Leads To First HIPAA Breach Settlement Involving Less Than 500...

by Blake Schofield | Leonard, Street and Deinard on 1/15/2013

On January 2, 2013, the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced its first HIPAA breach settlement involving less than 500 patients. OCR took action against a hospice provider in...more

King & Spalding

First HHS OCR Settlement for HIPAA Breach Involving Less Than 500 Patients Sends Message to Providers

by King & Spalding on 1/15/2013

On January 2, 2013, HHS announced that the Hospice of North Idaho (HONI) agreed to pay $50,000 and enter into a Corrective Action Plan (CAP) as part of a settlement involving a breach of unsecured electronic protected health...more

BakerHostetler

Health Law Update — January 10, 2013

by Darby C. Allen, Ameena Ashfaq, Donna S. Clark, Susan Feigin Harris, Theodore Kobus III, B. Scott McBride, Lynn Sessions, Summer Swallow, Robert Wolin | BakerHostetler on 1/14/2013

In This Issue: - Healthcare Provisions in the American Taxpayer Relief Act - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly - American Taxpayer Relief Act Amends Overpayment Recovery Time Limits - OIG Advisory Opinion Sheds...more

Morgan Lewis

OCR Reaches $50,000 Settlement with Hospice for Small Data Breach

by Heather Deixler, W. Reece Hirsch, Howard Young | Morgan Lewis on 1/8/2013

Enforcement action sends a strong message to the healthcare industry and reaffirms the need for security risk analysis and mobile-device security policies and procedures....more

BakerHostetler

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

by Cory Fox | BakerHostetler on 1/7/2013

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

Trenam Kemker

First HIPAA Breach Settlement Involving Less Than 500 Patients Announced

by Michael Igel | Trenam Kemker on 1/4/2013

ALL PROVIDERS ARE OFFICIALLY ON NOTICE. In a move that signals just how seriously the federal government is taking its enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the U.S....more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Small Data Breach Leads to $50,000 HHS Settlement for Hospice

by Adam H. Greene | Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 1/3/2013

In what HHS declares as “the first settlement involving a breach of unprotected electronic protected health information (ePHI) affecting fewer than 500 individuals,” the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reached a $50,000...more

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