Podcast - Data Privacy and Tracking Technology Compliance
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 10
AI Risks in Healthcare
Business Associates Here, There, and Everywhere: When Does Your Service Provider Really Need to Sign a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement?
Healthcare Privacy Walkthroughs
HIPAA Tips With Williams Mullen - Health Care Providers - Are You Ready for a Ransomware Attack?
Hybrid Workforces and Compliance with Sheila Limmroth
Privacy and Healthcare Business Associates with Isabella Porter
Podcast: Interoperability: The Provider Perspective - Diagnosing Health Care
HIPAA Tips With Williams Mullen - COVID Health Information and HIPAA – Do You Know the Rules?
Podcast–Interoperability: How Far We’ve Come and Where We’re Going - Diagnosing Health Care
State Law Privacy Video Series | Healthcare Entities and Health Data
Getting Personal—Wearable Devices, Data, and Compliance
AGG Talks: Technology - In the Balance: Interoperability and Security
Podcast: How Can Companies in the Health Care and Life Sciences Industries Strengthen Their Cybersecurity Posture? - Diagnosing Health Care
Nick Culbertson on Compliance Breaches in Healthcare
Privacy Series: HIPAA Breaches - When It Is, and When It Is Not a Breach
Podcast: Are Vaccine Passports the Key to Reopening? - Diagnosing Health Care
HIPPA: Privacy & Security and Potential Rule Changes
Compliance Perspectives: Privacy Investigations in a Virtual World
New York AG Letitia James settled with US Radiology Specialists, Inc. to resolve allegations that the private radiology group violated New York’s Executive Law and General Business Law by failing to adequately protect...more
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced on March 27, 2023 that she had levied a fine against law firm Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy & Bach LLP for failing to secure personal and health information of clients exposing the...more
Oklahoma State University’s Center for Health Services recently paid $875,000 to settle potential HIPAA violations after a cyberattack resulted in the unauthorized access of its patients’ protected health information. A...more
Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 5 (May, 2022) - Compared to other agencies, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is a little fish in the big federal pond, but it has an outsize effect on HIPAA covered entities (CEs) and...more
One of the challenging things about HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) enforcement is the fact that both the Office for Civil Rights and State AGs have jurisdiction to assess fines and penalties for...more
On January 27, 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a $145 million settlement with Practice Fusion Inc., an electronic health records (EHR) software company, that resolves parallel criminal and civil investigations...more
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it has fined the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (TXHHS) $1.6 million for HIPAA violations. This is one of the few fines the OCR has levied against a state agency....more
Elite Dental Associates (Elite), located in Dallas, Texas has agreed to settle alleged HIPAA violations with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for $10,000....more
The Office for Civil Rights has announced that it has fined Lakeland, Florida based Advanced Care Hospitalists (ACH) $500,000 for an impermissible disclosure of protected health information by one of its business associates. ...more
We often forget that state AG’s have jurisdiction under the HIPAA Omnibus Rule to levy fines and penalties against HIPAA covered entities for violations. This is because the Office for Civil Rights has traditionally taken the...more
In a rare move by the OCR, it assessed a $3.2 million fine against Children’s Medical Center of Dallas (Children’s) after it issued a Notice of Proposed Determination against Children’s and Children’s failed to request a...more
Oregon Health & Science University (“OHSU”) has paid $2.7 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) to settle allegations that it violated the Health Insurance Portability...more
The possibility of business associates potentially being audited, investigated, and ultimately fined is now a reality. On June 24, 2016, the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights...more
Hospital patients who are dying or in extreme duress should not have their privacy exploited by reality television camera shows, federal health care regulators now have made clear. They have just settled with a noted New York...more
On March 16, 2016, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a press release announcing that it has settled its investigation of North Memorial Health Care System (NMHCS), located in Minnesota, for $1.55 million saying that...more
Triple-S Salud, Inc. (“Triple-S”), a Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration (“PRHIA”) contractor, filed a Form 8-K indicating that the PRHIA intended to impose a civil monetary penalty of $6,768,000 and other...more
Triple-S Management Corp. (“Triple-S”), a Puerto Rico-based health insurer, has been fined $6.8 million by the Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration (“PRHIA”) following a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability...more
HHS OCR announced today its second resolution agreement of 2013. Shasta Regional Medical Center (SRMC) has agreed to pay $275,000 and enter into a comprehensive corrective action plan (CAP) to settle an investigation opened...more