On May 6, 2024, OCR published the final rule interpreting and implementing Section 1557 at 45 C.F.R. § 92 (the Final Rule). The Final Rule regulates the use of patient care decision support tools, including AI algorithms for...more
1/24/2025
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The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on December 27, 2024, to update the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...more
In today's digital age, the health care industry faces a growing threat from scammers who don't have to use sophisticated cyberattacks; they can use the most routine task to steal information from unwitting and...more
On May 31, 2023, renowned managed file transfer solution provider Ipswitch, Inc. revealed a zero-day vulnerability in its flagship solution, MOVEit Transfer, that can enable mass data theft from thousands of organizations....more
Artificial Intelligence (AI), including ChatGPT, has now ushered its way regularly into management conversations. How can AI benefit an organization, provide it with a competitive advantage, or make it more efficient? At the...more
In August 2022, LastPass – one of the largest password managers in the world – suffered a cyber breach resulting in the theft of thousands of password vaults of both individual and corporate users. Password managers are an...more
If your management team and board of directors are not talking often about cyber liability and risk management, they will be soon. As a matter of both corporate and individual liability, recent enforcement makes it clear...more
Cyber whistleblowing is the newest and hottest area of exposure for organizations. All government contractors and grant recipients must develop an understanding of the use of the False Claims Act (FCA) to address...more
4/15/2022
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On Tuesday, December 8 one of the nation's leading cyber defense vendors (FireEye) announced it suffered a recent cyber-attack from a "highly sophisticated threat actor, one whose discipline, operational security lead us to...more
12/11/2020
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Human resources can no longer just rely on their IT and legal counsel to focus on the concerns and issues surrounding cyberattacks. As more companies re-open and unemployment rates grow, cyber criminals are continuing to...more
All companies with Tennessee employees or customers need to revise their data incident policies and procedures. Tennessee has revised their breach notification statute to remove the encryption safe harbor, which previously...more