On June 9, 2021, OCR distributed an update to those on its Privacy List sharing links to alerts and resources for addressing the growing number and size of ransomware incidents. One such resource included a White House memo...more
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On June 18, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced an Administrative Law Judge’s (ALJ) ruling that OCR properly imposed penalties against The University of...more
On April 6, 2017, New Mexico became the 48th state to enact a data breach notification law; the Data Breach Notification Act (the “Act”) will go into effect on June 16, 2017.
The good news for many in the health care...more