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HITECH Compliance

AIHC

Checklist for Individual & Small Group Practices Written by: Nancie Lee Cummins, CFE, CHA, CIFHA, OHCC, CHCM, CHCO, CORCM This article provides an overview of Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and basic checklist of policies and procedures for compliance of smaller health care organizations.

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New York Sets Aside $500M for Hospital Compliance and Cybersecurity

Compliancy Group

New York has already set aside $500 million for compliance efforts that hospitals across the state can apply to receive a share of. According to a press release published by the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR), ransomware and hacking are healthcare’s primary cyberthreats.

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Eye Care Leaders Breach: Ransomware Attack Claims New Victims

Compliancy Group

In early December of 2021, Eye Care Leaders (Eye Care), an electronic medical record vendor supplying business associate services to eye care providers across the country, discovered it had incurred a data breach. Eye Care’s myCare Integrity solution was hacked via a ransomware attack on December 4, 2021. . Learn More! ×

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June 2022 Healthcare Data Breach Report

HIPAA Journal

There were 31 reported breaches of 10,000 or more healthcare records in June – the same number as May 2022 – two of which affected more than 1.2 Several healthcare providers submitted breach reports in June 2022 due to the ransomware attack on the HIPAA business associate, Eye Care Leaders. Eye Care Leaders ransomware attack.

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Health System Ransomware Attack Lingers…

Health Care Performance

CommonSpirit hospitals reported IT issues on October 3 rd with a response that included taking systems offline, including their electronic medical records. CommonSpirit has 140 hospitals in 21 states. According to Healthcaredive.com, based on website information, hospitals in seven states have been impacted.

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Key Cybersecurity Defenses for the Healthcare Sector

Healthcare IT Today

What is most concerning about attacks on healthcare organizations is that any of the four most common types of attacks (ransomware, supply chain attacks, cloud or business email compromise) can trigger serious consequences for the health of patients, even putting their lives at risk.

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Compliance is Everybody’s Business: Clinical, Revenue Cycle, IT, Sales and Marketing

YouCompli

Sharon Parsley, JD, MBA, CHC, CHRC contributes a monthly post on compliance officer effectiveness for the YouCompli blog. Many people in our discipline love the slogan “compliance is everybody’s business.” For me, that has sometimes been the Chief Medical Officer or a physician CEO who really understood what I was trying to do.