Solo private practices and small group practices are subject to the same HIPAA regulations as nationwide health care systems, and therefore HIPAA training for small medical practices has to cover the same range of subjects as much larger organizations – with fewer...
The HIPAA EHR rules stipulate the measures healthcare organizations are required to implement to protect health information maintained on EHRs against impermissible uses and disclosures. Unfortunately, not all healthcare organizations fully comply with the HIPAA EHR...
President Biden has issued an Executive Order on Protecting Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services following the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. According to the Supreme Court, there is no right to abortion in the Constitution of the United...
Two U.S. senators have written to Xavier Becerra, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, requesting a change to the HIPAA Privacy Rule in the wake of the decision of the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the...
A warning has been issued to the healthcare and public health (HPH) sector that North Korean state-sponsored hackers are conducting targeted ransomware attacks using Maui ransomware. The warning was issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the...
The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) has been formally introduced in the House of Representatives and seeks to introduce a comprehensive Federal consumer data privacy law. This is not the first such privacy law to be proposed, but all other attempts to...
California Attorney General, Rob Bonta, recently issued a reminder to health app developers about their obligations to protect healthcare data – and specifically reproductive health data – under California law following the SCOTUS decision in Dobbs v. Jackson...
