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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Webinar] The Compliance Officer's Challenge: Riding the Technological Wave in Healthcare - September 17th, 12:00 pm CT

Learning Objectives: - It's crucial to be aware of the areas where technology and AI are present in healthcare, and equally important not to overlook your EHR. A comprehensive understanding is key - Acquiring knowledge...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

2024 HIPAA Developments

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Over the course of the past few months, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), both of which are divisions of the U.S. Department of Health and...more

Baker Donelson

Medical Records Scams: What You Need to Know

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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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: March 2024

Research from Guidepoint Security found that 2023 saw an 80% increase in ransomware activity year-over-year, driven in part by multiple mass exploitation campaigns impacting hundreds of organizations. In total, the report...more

Dickinson Wright

How Did They Get My Protected Health Information?

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It is no secret that protected health information (or “PHI”) is more and more at risk for cybersecurity attacks. In 2022 (the most recent year this statistic is available), the Department for Health and Human Services Office...more

Cozen O'Connor

New York May Be Paving the Way for State-level Cybersecurity Regulations on Health Care Facilities

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Last month, a cyberattack forced two New York hospitals to divert and even discharge some patients to other facilities, while the affected hospitals shut down their IT systems to address the issue and restore their secure...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 2 (February 2023) DCH Health Systems, based in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said it fired an employee in December after a routine privacy audit revealed evidence that the worker had accessed some...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 1. Privacy Briefs: January 2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 1 (January 2023) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said a data breach at a Medicare subcontractor impacted the personally identifiable information and protected...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 11. Privacy Briefs: November 2022

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 11. November 2022 - The second largest nonprofit hospital chain in the U.S. has been grappling with an Oct. 3 cybersecurity incident that affected facilities across the country,...more

Burr & Forman

Cyber Attacks on Health Care Entities Increasing

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Cyber-attacks on health care entities are becoming increasingly frequent, and the resulting data breaches are often complex. In the event of a cyber-attack, health care entities and their business associates must adhere to...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

Privacy Tip – Health Care Sector Continues to Be Hit with Ransomware

According to the 2022 State of Ransomware Report issued recently by Sophos, it surveyed 5,600 IT professionals from 31 countries, including professionals in the health care sector. Those professionals in the health care...more

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Protecting Healthcare Records These Days is Like a Game of “Whac-a-Mole”

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You’ve probably either played the game “Whac-a-Mole” yourself as a kid, or you watched your kid play it, at a Chuck E. Cheese or another similar arcade. It’s a simple game with five holes in which moles pop up and a soft...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Reporting of Breaches Under 500 Due by March 1

HIPAA requires covered entities and business associates to report to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) all breaches of unsecured protected health information when the incident involves fewer than 500 individuals no later than...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 1. Privacy Briefs: January 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 1 (January, 2022) - New Jersey issued its third settlement in three months on state-level health care privacy and security laws, announcing that three cancer care providers would adopt new...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

NJ Infertility Clinic Reaches $495,000 Data Breach Settlement

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The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office announced on October 12 that Diamond Institute for Infertility and Menopause, LLC, based in Millburn, NJ, will pay a $495,000 penalty for allegedly violating HIPAA and state law by...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Medical Center Rebuilding EMR Following Ransomware Attack

Queen Creek Medical Center (QCMC), also known as Desert Wells Family Medicine, located in Arizona, has notified up to 35,000 patients of a data breach following a ransomware attack that corrupted its medical records system,...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 9. Privacy Briefs: September 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21 no. 9 (September, 2021) - DuPage Medical Group in Chicago said that the personal information of more than 600,000 patients may have been compromised in a July cyberattack. The medical group,...more

Jones Day

California Attorney General Issues Bulletin on Health Data Breach Reporting Requirements

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The California Attorney General ("AG") has issued guidance reminding health care providers of their duty to report health care data breaches and to comply with other state and federal data privacy laws....more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Health Care Companies Face Financial Strain from Data Breaches

The intersection of health and bankruptcy law could not be more pronounced in the event of a cataclysmic event. A cyberattack is such an event. Following the cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline, which led to a multiday shutdown...more

BakerHostetler

Ransomware, COVID-19 and Regulations: Healthcare Entities Confront a Triple Threat

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Given what the healthcare industry faced in 2020, the seventh edition of our Data Security Incident Response (DSIR) Report, “Disruption and Transformation,” is aptly titled. As if fighting the COVID-19 pandemic weren’t enough...more

Epstein Becker & Green

A Guide to Practical, Regulatory, and Reputational Risk Management

Ransomware Particularly Inflicts Health Care and Life Sciences Organizations - Ransomware is a malicious cyber threat vector that employs encryption malware to prevent users from accessing their systems and data unless...more

Knobbe Martens

The State Of Health Data For Vulnerable Populations, Why Cybercriminals Target Children, The Elderly, and the Dead

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As of 2021, more than twice the number of data breaches are now being reported than 6 years ago and three times the number of data breaches that occurred in 2010. While credit cards and social security numbers are perennial...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

Providers: Cyberattacks Are Still Coming–Are You Prepared?

Cyberattacks against healthcare providers accounted for 79% of all reported data breaches in 2020. (See here). The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Healthcare Systems Remain an Attractive Target for Ransomware Attacks

Users of Universal Health Services (UHS), one of the largest healthcare systems in the country, recently lost access to electronic medical records when UHS suffered a ransomware attack and took its systems offline to...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 11. Privacy Briefs: November 2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 11 (November 2020) - HHS Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology (ONC) is giving health care organizations more time to meet new rules on information...more

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