HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Penalties for HIPAA violations can be issued by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and state attorneys general. In addition to financial penalties, covered entities are required to adopt a corrective action plan to bring policies and procedures up to the standards demanded by HIPAA. .

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 19, 2023

Whether or not a HIPAA violation will show up on a background check depends on the nature of the violation, the consequences of the violation, and the motive for the violation. While it is currently rare for a HIPAA violation to show up on a background check, this may change due to a proposed update to the Privacy Rule.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 26, 2023

HIPAA enforcement discretion occurs when the Secretary for Health and Human Services (HHS) announces the Department will exercise discretion in the enforcement of HIPAA Rules. Typically, Notices of Enforcement Discretion last between 72 hours and 60 days, are state or region-specific and apply to specific provisions of the HIPAA Rules.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 11, 2022

Phoenixville Hospital Fires Employee for HIPAA Violation. When the privacy violation was discovered, the employee was immediately suspended pending an internal investigation and was later fired for the HIPAA breach. Some of the accessed records included partial Social Security numbers and health insurance information.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 2, 2023

The settlements pursued by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) are for egregious violations of HIPAA Rules. Settlements are also pursued to highlight common HIPAA violations to raise awareness of the need to comply with specific aspects of HIPAA Rules. Are Data Breaches HIPAA Violations?

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Compliancy Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Keeping your dental office compliant with HIPAA and OSHA regulations is one more thing to juggle. HIPAA and OSHA training for dental offices is an essential part of compliance. Be able to prove the HIPAA and OSHA training was done. Know the most common HIPAA and OSHA citations and violations. These include: HIPAA.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 9, 2023

The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights has announced its 44th enforcement action under its HIPAA Right of Access initiative with a $15,000 financial penalty for David Mente, MA, LPC, a licensed counselor that provides psychotherapy services in Pittsburgh, PA. That led to the father filing a second complaint with OCR. 164.524(3).

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Ottumwa Fire Department in Iowa has recently fired employees for alleged violations of the HIPAA Rules and other misconduct. Clinical information that could have been accessed included diagnoses, lab results, medications, and procedures. Kye and Keith are entitled to request a hearing.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 15, 2023

How to become HIPAA compliant is one of the biggest challenges for many businesses operating in the healthcare and health insurance industries. Nonetheless, businesses who operate in these industries – and service providers that do business with them – must understand what HIPAA compliance entails and how to become HIPAA compliant.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It has been another bad year for healthcare data breaches, with some of the biggest HIPAA breaches of 2022 resulting in the impermissible disclosure of well over a million records. The Biggest HIPAA Breaches of 2022. The 12 biggest HIPAA breaches of 2022 affected almost 22.66 million patients and health plan members.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 5, 2023

If your HIPAA-covered organization is planning to use Microsoft Teams to collect, store, share, or transmit electronic PHI, it is important to know how to make Microsoft Teams HIPAA compliant. How to Make Microsoft Teams HIPAA Compliant No software is HIPAA compliant.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Unauthorized individuals have gained access to the email system of the Administrative Fund of the Detectives’ Endowment Association of the Police Department of the City of New York (NYCDEA) and potentially viewed or obtained the protected health information of 21,544 individuals.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Avalon Healthcare has agreed to settle alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and state laws with the Oregon and Utah Attorneys General that were uncovered during an investigation of a 2019 breach of the personal and protected health information of 14,500 of its employees and patients.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The Michigan law firm, Warner Norcross and Judd LLP, has issued notification letters to 255,160 individuals advising them about an October 2021 security breach in which files containing their personal and protected health information were potentially accessed and exfiltrated from its systems. The breach was detected on October 22, 2021.

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Compliancy Group

AUGUST 17, 2022

Ivy Pay is an online payment processor that serves only licensed therapists. Healthcare providers can only use HIPAA compliant payment processors to receive payments from patients. So, is Ivy Pay HIPAA compliant? Ivy Pay and Information Protection. × Simplified HIPAA Compliance for Therapists. Learn More! ×

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 2, 2022

6 data breaches have recently been reported by HIPAA-regulated entities that have collectively resulted in the exposure and potential theft of the protected health information of tens of thousands of individuals. Valley View Hospital did not state in its substitute breach notice what types of information had been compromised.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 13, 2023

In a world where hundreds of millions of tweets, posts, snaps, and stories are posted on social media daily, sharing information about our lives may seem like second nature. But for those in the healthcare industry, sharing the wrong thing could result in a HIPAA violation. Social Media and HIPAA – The Basics. Telephone number.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

Politzer and Durocher, PLC, which does business as Optometric Physicians of Middle Tennessee (OPMT), has recently reported a hacking incident to the HHS Office for Civil Rights involving the personal and protected health information of 29,000 individuals. Advarra is notifying the affected individuals on behalf of Moffitt Cancer Center.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 26, 2023

Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis, IN-based obstetrician-gynecologist has been fined $3,000 by the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana and issued with a letter of reprimand for violating HIPAA and state privacy law after talking to the media about an abortion she provided to a 10-year-old rape victim on July 1, 2022.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 16, 2023

Florida Medical Clinic, NorthStar Emergency Medical Services, Denver Public Schools, Wichita Urology Group, and The Bone & Joint Clinic have recently reported hacking incidents and the exposure and potential theft of protected health information. No financial information was compromised, and only 115 Social Security numbers were exposed.

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Total HIPAA

JULY 12, 2022

Also, without a properly configured website with SSL/TLS certificates, any information you access on a website that is not encrypted is easily intercepted in transit. Many internet service providers offer SSL/TLS licenses for free or for less than $100/year. Depending on a third party to protect your information.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 23, 2024

The attack affected Victoria Surgery Center, Victoria Eye Center , and Victoria Vision Center and involved the personal and protected health information of 80,122 individuals. The post Ransomware Attack on Texas Ophthalmology Practice Exposes Data of 80,000 Patients appeared first on HIPAA Journal.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Information exchange and data availability are now a cost of doing business but establishing a robust strategy for that exchange and compliance with the new regulation from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology takes careful planning. Understand what constitutes “Electronic Health Information”.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 22, 2024

Superior Air-Ground Ambulance Service, a leading ambulance and EMS provider serving Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin, has confirmed that the protected health information of 858,238 patients was exposed or stolen in a cyberattack in May 2023.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 23, 2024

A cybersecurity firm was engaged to investigate the disruption and confirmed that unauthorized individuals accessed its network and exfiltrated files containing the personal information of residents. It took more than 10 months (April 10, 2024) to determine the types of information involved and the number of individuals affected.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

Several class action lawsuits have been filed against City of Hope National Medical Center, a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer treatment and research center, over a recently disclosed data breach that exposed the protected health information of more than 827,000 individuals.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A former employee of Axia Women’s Health in Pennsylvania has been charged in a 39-count indictment for stealing patient information for personal gain. The information stolen by Latimer was used to open credit cards and make purchases totaling more than $31,000.

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Compliancy Group

APRIL 19, 2023

Wondering why your practice or organization should be HIPAA compliant? In the United States, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted in 1996 to regulate the handling and protecting confidential medical information. million per year for each violation of HIPAA.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sriram Rajagopalan , Enterprise Agile Evangelist at Inflectra Today’s most significant risk regarding security and privacy issues in health services is consumers’ need for more awareness of personal health information. Technology is growing faster than we can catch up, and we are giving away our personal information too soon.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The Michigan law firm, Warner Norcross and Judd LLP, has issued notification letters to 255,160 individuals advising them about an October 2021 security breach in which files containing their personal and protected health information were potentially accessed and exfiltrated from its systems. The breach was detected on October 22, 2021.

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Total HIPAA

MARCH 29, 2023

In this blog post, we review nine email encryption vendors ( Barracuda, Egress, Hushmail, Indentillect, LuxSci, MailHippo, NeoCertified, Protected Trust, ProtonMail, Rmail, & Virtru ) who provide HIPAA compliant email encryption services that will keep your information safe when in transit. Setup takes less than 30 minutes.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On December 14, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) settled with New Vision Dental (NVD) over a potential HIPAA Privacy violation. Indest III, J.D., The California-based dental practice paid $23,000 to OCR and [.]

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Third-party forensics experts were engaged to investigate the breach and determined that its systems were compromised between September 1, 2023, and September 5, 2023, and during that time, files were exfiltrated that contained personal and protected health information.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 30, 2024

On April 10, 2024, Livanova confirmed that the personal and protected health information of U.S. The affected individuals have been advised to monitor their credit reports and account statements and to be alert to unsolicited communications involving personal information. patients had been exfiltrated from its systems in the attack.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 5, 2023

medical licensing exam , diagnose illnesses , and even outshine human doctors on measures of perceived empathy , raising many questions about how AI will reshape health care as we know it. In the field of medicine, ChatGPT already has been reported to ace the U.S. But what happens when AI gets things wrong?

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 22, 2024

Knowles Smith & Associates, which does business as Village Family Dental and operates 7 dentistry offices in North Carolina, recently notified 240,214 current and former patients that some of their protected health information was exposed in a November 2023 cyberattack.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 24, 2023

A medical management company has been fined $550,000 by the New York Attorney General for failing to prevent a cyberattack that exposed the personal and protected health information of 1.2 The leaked data included screenshots of 13 patients’ protected health information. million individuals, including 428,000 New Yorkers.

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