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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
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) […]
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation offers safeguards for people against the risks that a damaging automated decision is undertaken without the intervention of a human. Computerized decisions relate to decisions made following automatic […]
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