HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The extent to which protected health information has been compromised is not yet known. Notifications were issued on November 14, 2022. According to the STAR substitute breach notice, the breach was detected in September 2022. California Health Insurance Agency Suffers Data Breach Affecting 14,600 Patients.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 31, 2023

Liederman has been in the trenches working to figure out how to set up network gates so skilled clinicians and other valuable healthcare staff – employees who may have simply lapsed in judgment – are helped to stop themselves from breaching HIPAA.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 9, 2023

Legacy Operating Company, an Alabama-based operator of Legacy Hospice facilities in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Tennessee, has confirmed that an unauthorized third party gained access to a limited number of employee email accounts on February 11, 2022, and between April 7, 2022, and April 21, 2022.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

The leaked data includes patient names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, medical records, Social Security numbers, copies of passports and driver’s licenses, health insurance information, and company data. The investigation uncovered evidence of unauthorized access to files that contained patient information.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 2, 2023

The administrative service provider said suspicious activity was detected within its network in early December 2022, and the forensic investigation confirmed on December 15, 2022, that an unauthorized third party accessed parts of its computer network where personal health information was stored.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 28, 2022

The attackers gained access to parts of its system on April 23, 2021, that housed files that contained individuals protected health information, including names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, financial information, government-issued ID numbers, and health information.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 23, 2022

Notification letters were sent to affected individuals on March 10, 2022. According to a March 10, 2022 data breach notice, Dialyze Direct said it discovered on February 14, 2022, that an unauthorized individual had gained access to an employee email account between January 21, 2021, and March 4, 2021. Highmark Inc.,

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 6, 2023

Cedar Park, TX-based Dental Health Management Solutions (DHMS), a provider of dental services to the government/military and private patients has recently announced – via its legal counsel – that the protected health information of certain patients was exposed in a 2021 hacking incident.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The Louisiana healthcare system said suspicious activity was detected by its security team on October 21, 2022, and steps were taken to contain the activity and investigate a potential breach. The Palm Springs, FL-based federally qualified health center, FoundCare Inc., Some Social Security numbers were also compromised.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 5, 2022

The email system was immediately secured when the breach was detected with the forensic investigation confirming that two email accounts had been accessed by an unauthorized third party between January 12, 2022, and January 19, 2022. A limited number of patients also had financial account information exposed.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 22, 2024

Since 1996, when the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) became law, there have been good advances in patient data interoperability, but as a whole, the industry has not embraced them. This drove the use of Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs) in acute care hospitals to 84 percent by 2015.

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Compliancy Group

MARCH 27, 2023

The Cyberattack The aforementioned cyberattack took place on December 1, 2022. On December 2, 2022, access to several servers was blocked after hackers obtained access to the Computer systems of the medical groups. Make Sure You’re HIPAA Compliant HIPAA and cybersecurity go hand-in-hand. Find Out More! Please Wait.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Mena Regional Health System (MRHS) in Arkansas announced on November 22, 2022, that an unauthorized third party gained access to its network and exfiltrated files containing the protected health information of 84,814 patients. That process commenced on November 22, 2022.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Kevin Kirkwood, Deputy CISO, LogRhythm 2022 research from Morning Consult reveals that the healthcare field in particular has witnessed substantial enhancements in medical diagnoses, mental health evaluations, and the expeditious discovery of treatment options following the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI).

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 8, 2023

Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and health insurance were impermissibly disclosed. Telligen subcontracted part of that work to Independent Living Systems (ILS), where the data breach occurred in June and July 2022. The protected health information of approximately 20,800 Medicaid members was compromised in the attack.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The focus of this article is to “connect the dots” between Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) and HITECH regarding privacy and security of electronically protected health information (ePHI). However, your organization should not address only “HIPAA” or only “HITECH”. What is “HITECH”?

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 25, 2022

When the HIPAA violation was detected, the employee was immediately suspended and an internal investigation was launched to determine the extent of the privacy breach and the types of information that had been obtained. The review of the records was completed on September 7, 2022, and notification letters were sent on October 10.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In October 2022, Urology of Greater Atlanta in Georgia reported a data breach to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights that had affected 79,795 patients. The intrusion was detected on September 5, 2022, and third-party computer specialists were engaged to investigate the nature and scope of the breach.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 16, 2022

The compromised data included names, Social Security numbers, government identification numbers, financial account numbers, dates of birth, medical diagnosis or treatment information, health insurance information, and client identification numbers.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The focus of this article is to “connect the dots” between Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) and HITECH regarding privacy and security of electronically protected health information (ePHI). However, your organization should not address only “HIPAA” or only “HITECH”. What is “HITECH”?

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Hall Render

JULY 11, 2022

On June 29, 2022, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) released a notice and guidance on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) and the protection of patient information relating to reproductive health care (the “Notice”).

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

million being defrauded from Medicaid, Medicare, and private health insurance programs. Five state Medicaid programs, two Medicare Administrative Contractors, and two private health insurers were tricked into changing the bank account details for payments. He was sentenced to 4 years in jail on September 15, 2022.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 27, 2023

The stolen information included names, addresses, email addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, government identification ID numbers, driver’s license numbers, payment/financial institution information, health insurance providers, medical treatment information, medical diagnoses, medications, medical images, and lab test results.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 21, 2023

billion in 2022, RFID in the global healthcare market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 17.85% from 2023 to 2030. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is another significant regulation that can impact RFID in healthcare applications. Valued at USD 3.95

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

There was a global increase in cyberattacks in Q3, 2022, with attacks rising by 28% compared to the corresponding period last year. Education was the most extensively targeted sector in Q3, experiencing an 18% rise in attacks, followed by government/military which saw a 20% increase.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2022

In effect, a covered health care provider seeking to use audio or video communication technology to provide telehealth services during the public health emergency could do so with greater flexibility. Background of HIPAA. HIPAA does not mandate a specific method to complete this verification.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Highmark Health, Google Cloud , and League unveiled their collaboration on an interoperable, digital health platform that makes it simple for individuals to navigate healthcare and connect to the right tools and resources when and where they need them. Twilio, Healthfirst Launch CDP for Health Plans and Providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2024

In the same step, the number of regulations governing the sector has grown in complexity, which stems from movements including the HIPAA Right of Access Initiative and fallout from the reversal of federally protected abortion access.

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AIHC

JUNE 14, 2023

We recommend watching the introduction video: [link] For healthcare HIPAA covered entities, NIST is likely a familiar organization to you. The initial draft of the AI RMF was published March 17, 2022 and a second draft on August 18, 2022. NIST published prior documents related to AI. Parts 160 and 164, Subparts A, C, and E).

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 31, 2022

The FTC’s increasing interest in health information that sits outside of HHS/OCR’s reach is likely to only expand in light of health-related metaverse use cases. In response to the growth of the metaverse and digital health generally, the FDA has been working to expand its guidance in the area. Healthcare Laws. 1, 2021). [2]

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AIHC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Terminology used for the various forms of telehealth technology are summarized below which applies to both general and behavioral health care use. Not all forms of technology are recognized as services which can be reimbursed by health insurance. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is the HIPAA enforcement agency.

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AIHC

MARCH 14, 2023

an AIHC member and Volunteer on the CEU Education Committee The right of access and information blocking are both related to the access and exchange of health information, but they are different in several key ways. HIPAA Privacy/Security and Compliance Officers and Health Information Management professionals need to know the difference.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 21, 2023

Artificial intelligence, digital health apps and virtual care platforms, among other technologies, provide solutions that are both cost and labor effective and seek to reduce the pressures being placed on the healthcare sector. from 2023 to 2030. million patients affected by data breaches in 2021 alone.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

One attack that has made the headlines – the cyberattack on the Australian health insurer, Medibank Private Ltd – confirms the global nature of the current cyber war, which healthcare organizations around the world are struggling to win. On October 13, 2022, Medibank detected suspicious activity within its network.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

Since its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT (“GPT” stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer), a type of artificial intelligence model, has gained over a million users. ChatGPT is used by entities in a wide variety of industries.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 3, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services Office of Information Security noted in a 2022 report on health sector cybersecurity, that threat actors continue to evolve and become more sophisticated and effective in their attacks. Compliance with regulations is nothing new for the industry.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

2022 ushered in Act III of the market’s latest transitionary period: The Post-Inflation Era. Act I: Pre-COVID (Pre-2020) Act II: Post-COVID (2020 – 2021) Act III: Post-Inflation (2022 – ?). The amount of investment going into Health IT is nearly half the Post-COVID peak, but still 27% higher than Pre-COVID levels.

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