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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Compliance and Value-Based Care

With value-based care growing, what role does compliance play? To find out we spoke with Carolyn Barton, Vice President, West Regional Compliance Officer at Kaiser Permanente. She explains that at Kaiser they define...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Overlapping surgeries: Time for a compliance checkup?

Overlapping surgeries is a practice that has been used for many years by healthcare providers (such as hospitals and surgical centers). This practice generally refers to situations where one lead attending surgeon is...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 15th Annual Advanced Forum on Managed Care Disputes and Litigation - May 2nd - 3rd, Chicago, IL

ACI’s Advanced Forum on Managed Care Disputes and Litigation offers an unparalleled learning experience, specifically designed for the MCO legal community. Attend and develop winning legal strategies and business best...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Podcast: Discussing the Implications of Healthcare Privacy Violations

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In this episode of our “Florida Capital Conversations” podcast series, healthcare attorneys Mia McKown, Eddie Williams and Shannon Hartsfield discuss how privacy violations can put a healthcare practitioner's license at risk....more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 10. Privacy Briefs: October 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 10 (October, 2022) - Thirty Democratic senators led by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., have called on HHS to strengthen federal privacy protections under HIPAA to broadly restrict providers...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 9. Privacy Briefs: September 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 9 (September, 2022) - More than 92% of patients believe privacy is a right and their health data should not be available for purchase, according to a survey from the American Medical...more

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The California Data Exchange Framework: New Requirements for Sharing Health Information Between Hospitals, Physicians, and Other...

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The recently unveiled California Health and Human Services Data Exchange Framework (the Framework) creates a new regulatory and governance structure to promote the exchange of health information between health care providers...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Virtual Event] Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference - November 7th - 9th, 8:55 am - 3:30 pm CST

Hear directly from the enforcement community - Want to gain insight into properly monitoring, detecting, investigating, and managing violations? Join us virtually at HCCA’s Annual Healthcare Enforcement Compliance...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 3. Privacy Briefs: March 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 3 (March, 2022) - HHS said in early March that it was not aware of any specific threat to U.S. health care organizations stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “However, in the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Securing Problematic 'Legacy' Devices: Be Part of Procurement, Push for Info

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 3 (March, 2022) - Typically a “legacy” describes the lasting impact of an influential person or movement, most often in a positive sense. Not so with medical devices. When legacy is applied...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 2 (February, 2022) - Tensions between the U.S. and Russia could lead to a heightened risk of Russian state-sponsored cyberattacks on U.S. interests, including health care organizations,...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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 8. Privacy Briefs: August 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 8 (August, 2021) - IBM Security reported that the total cost of a data breach increased by nearly 10% year-over-year in 2021, the largest single-year cost increase in the last seven years....more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Nick Culbertson on Compliance Breaches in Healthcare

Preventing data breaches is a critical task for all businesses these days, but it’s especially so in healthcare. No one wants to see health information disclosed, and the risks of a ransomware attack are enormous, literally...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 7. Privacy Briefs: July 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 7 (July, 2021) - Mayo Clinic is facing three lawsuits from patients who say a former surgery resident, Ahmad Alsughayer, viewed hundreds of their nude photographs in electronic health...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 6. Privacy Briefs: June 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 6 (June 2021) - Scripps Health in San Diego experienced what it called “an information technology security incident” from ransomware that was detected May 1, forcing some of its operations...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 3. Privacy Briefs: March 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 3 (March 2021) - The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an emergency directive addressing critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange products. Successful...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 2 (February 2021) - The Florida Healthy Kids Corporation (FHKC), a Medicaid managed care plan, said one of its vendors, Jelly Bean Communications Design, experienced a security incident...more

BakerHostetler

[Podcast] Let it Flow: Breaking Down Information Blocking

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Partner Vimala Devassy and Associate Kyle Gregory discuss how recent regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) represent the latest effort to break down these barriers to interoperability...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Virtual Event] 2021 25th Annual Compliance Institute - April 19th - 22nd, 9:30 am - 4:35 pm CDT

The Compliance Institute is celebrating 25 years! Join us for the Compliance Institute's 25th anniversary, April 19-22, 2021. This year, HCCA is excited to celebrate over two decades of compliance excellence with our...more

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Life Sciences: Connected Medical Devices in the Cloud During COVID-19

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The Pandemic has fast-tracked the use of telehealth services. Hussein Akhavannik discusses how medical device companies are looking to add to or expand remote monitoring capabilities. However, some capabilities raise legal...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] March Privacy Compliance Academy - March 9th - 12th, San Diego, CA

Dive into a broad spectrum of topics affecting healthcare organizations. Explore the latest laws, regulations, and developments to help you effectively manage your organization’s privacy compliance program. Our Academies are...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Addressing 'Deep Fake' Scans Is Critical Amid Tech Advances

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 19, Number 11. November 2019 - “Deep fake” radiology scans - with altered results falsely showing either fake cancerous nodes or a clear scan where the patient actually has cancer - are...more

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MaHIMA Webinar: "Alexa, What Medication Am I Taking?" (Presentation)

"Open the pod door, HAL" • Commercial voice-activated intelligent personal assistants from Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft, among others, are growing in popularity. • A report from NPR and Edison Research states...more

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