Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 10 (October 2020) - September was quite the month for enforcement actions by the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR). The agency announced eight settlements totaling more than $10 million....more
Healthcare providers (Providers) rely on third party vendors for providing Electronic Health Record (EHR) software services. Due to the amount of protected health information Providers store in these software services, and...more
On September 2, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") announced that it had entered into a Settlement Agreement with an Indiana-based medical practice for alleged violations of the Health Insurance...more
The increasing amounts of health information being generated, stored and collected have heightened the special risks medical device manufacturers have long faced. In addition to the nexus to patient health and safety, if a...more