On December 1, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provided guidance on the intersection of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the use of...more
Over the last two months, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) published guidance regarding the enforcement of HIPAA and its privacy and security requirements in response to the COVID-19 public health...more
5/6/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Facebook ,
Good Faith ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
OCR ,
PHI ,
Public Health ,
Public Health Emergency ,
SAMHSA ,
Telehealth
Your Organization’s best defense in an environment of aggressive regulators and litigious plaintiffs’ counsel is the completion of an enterprise risk assessment. Regulators and attorneys general are fining–sometimes hundreds...more
2/8/2019
/ Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Enterprise Risks ,
Hackers ,
HIPAA Breach ,
NIST ,
OCR ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Risk Assessment ,
Stakeholder Engagement