Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ) has agreed to pay a $1.1 million fine for failing to protect the electronic protected health information of almost 690,000 plan members. The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs made the announcement of...
The official deadline for reporting 2016 healthcare data breaches which impacted fewer than 500 people is March 1, 2017. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s Breach Notification Rule states that all covered bodies must report breaches of unsecured...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR), equaling last year’s record HIPAA settlement with Advocate Health, announced that a $5.5 million settlement had been agreed with Florida-based Memorial Healthcare Systems to settle potential...
At the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s 2017 conference-HIMSS17-OCR’s Deven McGraw released some new information on the HIPAA guidance OCR expects to release in 2017. Last year, the Joint Commission lifted the ban on the use of text messages for...
In January 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights issued a communication to covered entities in relation to the late reporting of data breaches following the announcement of a settlement with Chicago-based healthcare network...
Although the total number of healthcare data breaches reported in 2016 is an order of magnitude lower than the number seen in 2015, there was a significant increase in the number of covered entities (CEs) that reported breaches. There were 16,471,765 recorded breaches...
The Children’s Medical Center of Dallas has paid a civil monetary penalty of $3.2 million to resolve multiple HIPAA violations spanning several years. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) made the announcement revealing the fine...
