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New York Proposes Cybersecurity Regulations for Hospitals

Governor Kathy Hochul has released new cybersecurity requirements for hospitals in New York, requiring that they implement minimum cybersecurity controls to safeguard protected health information and avoid delays in care as a...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

Holland & Knight LLP

HHS Offers HIPAA Guidance on Online Tracking Technologies

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For years, patients and healthcare companies have been wrestling with privacy issues relating to cookies, pixels and other tracking technologies. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Civil Rights...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 6. Privacy Briefs: June 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 6 (June, 2022) - A report from the HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) found that in early 2022, ransomware groups increasingly turned to legitimate software during...more

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[Webinar] The FTC’s Changing Approach to Privacy - June 15th, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) now has a full slate of Commissioners and it is expected to ramp up privacy and cybersecurity enforcement and rulemaking in a number of critical areas. Join us for a discussion of the FTC’s...more

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Healthcare Organizations Continue to Be Under (Cyber) Attack

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Are the moles winning? A few months ago, I wrote how the job of protecting protected health information (PHI) regulated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is becoming more like a game of...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Hybrid Workforces and Compliance with Sheila Limmroth

Hybrid work is likely here to say, and, as Sheila Limmroth, privacy specialist at DCH Health System, and the author of the chapter Hybrid Work Environment in the Complete Healthcare Compliance Manual observes in this...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 4. Privacy Briefs: April 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 4 (April, 2022) - Dallas-based JDC Healthcare Management, which runs more than 70 dental and orthodontics practices in Texas, is notifying more than 1 million individuals about a breach...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

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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

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

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

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Getting Personal—Wearable Devices, Data, and Compliance

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Once reserved for routine doctors’ appointments, collecting health-related data has exploded as consumers start to monitor their own health metrics—everything from sleep and fertility to mental health and COVID-19—and...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 12. Privacy Briefs: December 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 12 (December, 2021) - Huntington Hospital in New York has sent notices to approximately 13,000 patients about an incident that happened in late 2018 and early 2019 involving a night shift...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 11. Privacy Briefs: November 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 11 (November, 2021) - Current and former patients of Las Vegas Cancer Center (LVCC) may have had their personal information exposed after a ransomware attack, the center said....more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 10. Privacy Briefs: October 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 10 (October, 2021) - A massive data breach at University of New Mexico (UNM) Health may have allowed a third party to obtain medical records from more than 600,000 patients—more than a...more

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Healthcare Organizations Must Deal with their Shadow Information Problem

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A myopic focus on protecting EMR (Electronic Medical Records) systems has left healthcare organizations open to shadow information risk. In a world where hackers and ransomware criminals are regularly compromising healthcare...more

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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

McDermott Will & Emery

[Webinar] 2021 GDPR Training Sessions - How to safely transfer data out of the European Union - December 2nd, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm...

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We are delighted to announce the second annual GDPR Training Series*, a series of webinars which aims to broaden depth of knowledge and expertise in the general data protection regulations (GDPR). Each session aims to...more

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[Webinar] 2021 GDPR Training Sessions - How to handle health data with care - October 19th, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm CEST

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We are delighted to announce the second annual GDPR Training Series*, a series of webinars which aims to broaden depth of knowledge and expertise in the general data protection regulations (GDPR). Each session aims to...more

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[Webinar] 2021 GDPR Training Sessions - How to prepare your business for a cyberattack - September 30th, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm CEST

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We are delighted to announce the second annual GDPR Training Series*, a series of webinars which aims to broaden depth of knowledge and expertise in the general data protection regulations (GDPR). Each session aims to...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

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Hackers Will Not Only Take Your Money, They Could Also Take Your Patients’ Lives

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Go to just about any news site today and there is probably a new story about a data breach that costs a company millions of dollars. Just in the past few weeks, we’ve seen Colonial Pipeline pay as much as $5 million in...more

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