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OIG Recommends Changes to HIPAA Audit Program to Strengthen Data Protections, Implications for Regulated Entities

Brooks Pierce on 12/5/2024

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is required by law to perform periodic audits of covered entities and business associates to ensure their compliance with HIPAA Security Rule...more

OIG releases 2024 audit of the Fed’s information security program

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 11/20/2024

On October 31, OIG for the Fed and the CFPB released its 2024 Audit of the Board’s Information Security Program. The audit found that the Board’s information security program continues to operate at a level-4 (managed and...more

[Event] 2024 Managed Care Compliance Conference - January 29th - 30th, Coronado, CA

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 9/5/2023

Explore the unique issues that are pertinent to managed care professionals! This annual event dedicated to compliance management for health plan providers is returning to an in-person format for 2024. Join your peers and...more

Ethics & Compliance: Let’s Talk About Cybersecurity

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 2/2/2023

Over the past few months, the OIG shorts series focused on structuring and implementing a comprehensive and effective ethics and compliance program. Many times, this requires a mindset shift from a checking-the-box mentality...more

[Virtual Event] Richmond Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - December 9th, 8:25 am - 4:30 pm EST

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 11/9/2022

General and specialty compliance training from the comfort of your home or office! HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences provide practitioners with virtual compliance training that includes updates on the...more

Changes to Stark and Anti-Kickback Regulations Address Technology Advances, Tighten Rules for EHR Contributions, and Promote...

ArentFox Schiff on 2/1/2021

Fraud and abuse regulations have been adapted to meet today’s technology for electronic data, promoting cooperation among health care providers for the exchange of health information and the protection of such information...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2020

Robinson & Cole LLP on 3/6/2020

Two Las Vegas casinos’ networks were down over the past week, with posted signs saying “Cash Only” throughout the casinos after a suspected ransomware attack. Electronic slot machines were silent as the casinos reacted to the...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - June 2019

Robinson & Cole LLP on 6/7/2019

Vicious malware continues to be deployed by China-based attackers. A new strain of malware, dubbed “HiddenWasp,” which has the ability to remotely infect computers, has been discovered by a security researcher at Intezar. The...more

HHS OIG Launches Cybersecurity Webpage to Raise Awareness and Boost Cybersecurity Best Practices

BakerHostetler on 12/5/2018

Healthcare data can be up to 10 times more valuable to cyber criminals than credit card numbers, according to a report from the Department of Health & Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG). And, with...more

OIG Announces Cybersecurity Initiative

Holland & Knight LLP on 10/10/2018

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG) announced a new cybersecurity website on Oct. 9, 2018. The OIG stated that it has formed a Cybersecurity Team made up of "auditors,...more

Health Care Institutions

K&L Gates LLP on 12/30/2016

Originally published in Haig, Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, Fourth Edition §§ 87:1 et seq. © 2016 American Bar Association. This chapter discusses federal court litigation relating to health care...more

CFPB Management Challenges Include Information Security

Ballard Spahr LLP on 10/7/2016

On September 29th, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) that oversees the CFPB released a memorandum detailing the major management challenges facing the CFPB. The memo identified four areas of improvement that, unless...more

Data-Harvesting Zombie Hackers, Blood-Thirsty Auditors, and Other Reasons to be Scared on Halloween

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 10/30/2015

This Halloween, the scariest monsters might not be in your closet or under your bed. They may be overseas, orchestrating intrusions into your electronic medical record. Or they may be lurking in your own workforce, carrying...more

OIG Reports Insufficient Oversight Of HIPAA Compliance

King & Spalding on 10/12/2015

The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) must improve its oversight and enforcement of patient information privacy and security rules by “covered entities” and their business associates under the Health Information Portability...more

CFPB Information Security Remains a Challenge

Ballard Spahr LLP on 10/8/2015

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has released the “2015 list of major management challenges” faced by the CFPB that the OIG believes will hamper the CFPB’s ability to accomplish the CFPB’s strategic objectives. Like...more

Inspector General’s Report Criticizes the Department of Homeland Security for Inadequate Privacy Policies and Controls

King & Spalding on 12/5/2014

On November 14, 2014, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a report critical of the agency’s performance in protecting personally identifiable information (PII) and...more

FDA Flunks Data Security Exam

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 10/28/2014

Last week, the HHS Office of Inspector General released a damning report on FDA’s data security: “The objective of this review was to determine whether the FDA’s network and external Web applications were vulnerable to...more

Financial Services Report, Summer 2014

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 6/9/2014

In This Issue: - Beltway Report - Bureau Report - Mobile Payments - Mortgage and Fair Lending Report - Operations Report - Preemption Report - Privacy Report - Arbitration Report - TCPA Report ...more

Extension of and Modification to Regulatory Protections for Donated EHR

Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP on 1/7/2014

In the December 27, 2013 edition of the Federal Register, the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), both within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”),...more

HIPAA Security Rule Enforcement Not Yet Meeting Federal Requirements

Benesch on 12/11/2013

A recent Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Report reviews progress made by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) toward enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule following...more

OIG issues report on CFPB information security system

Ballard Spahr LLP on 12/10/2013

The Bureau’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) (which it shares with the Fed) recently issued its 2013 report card on the CFPB’s information security system. While the OIG states in the audit report that the CFPB has made...more

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