The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers.
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces that it has settled its eighth enforcement action in its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative.
Aetna Life Insurance Company and affiliated covered entity (Aetna) has agreed to pay $1,000,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Athens Orthopedic Clinic PA (“Athens Orthopedic”) has agreed to pay $1,500,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is announcing it has settled five more investigations in its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative this year.
Today, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is announcing it has reached an early case resolution with the state of Utah after it revised its crisis standards of care (“CSC”) guidelines to ensure that such criteria do not discriminate against persons on the basis of age and disability. This is OCR’s seventh resolution regardingdiscrimination concerns during COVID-19.
Lifespan Health System Affiliated Covered Entity (Lifespan ACE), a non-profit health system based in Rhode Island, has agreed to pay $1,040,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Government declarations enabled tele-health to be, at least temporarily, a commonplace patient care modality. However, physicians should weigh a number of privacy and security factors before implementing telemedicine into their practice.
Criminal attacks are the leading cause of data breaches in health care, and health care organizations report 50% of their breaches come from cyberattacks.1 Ninety percent of these organizations had a data breach in the past two years, and nearly half had more than five data breaches in the same time period.
Carosh Compliance Solutions and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) are proud to announce that Carosh Compliance Solutions’ Roger Shindell, Founder and CEO, has earned the ANSI-accredited designation of Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).