RyanCoyne
Ryan Coyne is a results-driven leader in the healthcare compliance industry, specializing in regulatory compliance, compliance training, and assisting healthcare organizations and business associates in achieving and maintaining compliance. With a deep knowledge of healthcare regulations and a keen understanding of the challenges faced by the industry, Ryan has developed a reputation as a trusted advisor and advocate for ethical and compliant practices in healthcare. Ryan has successfully advised and guided numerous healthcare organizations, business associates, and healthcare professionals on achieving and maintaining compliance with regulatory training requirements. Ryan's professional focus is using his in-depth expertise and leading a world class team of subject matter experts at ComplianceJunction in regulatory compliance to help organisations navigate the complex landscape of ensuring staff adhere to healthcare regulations. You can connect with Ryan via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryancoyne/ and follow on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryancoyne
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 6, 2017 | HIPAA News
With Phase 2 of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights HIPAA compliance audits now well underway, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has updated its HIPAA audit readiness toolkit. Late last year, covered bodies...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 4, 2017 | HIPAA News
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) allows patients to access a copy of their medical records in electronic or paper form. In 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services released a series of videos and documentation to outline...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 25, 2017 | HIPAA News
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...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 20, 2017 | HIPAA News
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...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 19, 2017 | HIPAA News
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...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 15, 2017 | HIPAA News
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...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 5, 2017 | HIPAA News
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...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 28, 2017 | HIPAA News
Covenant HealthCare has advised more than 6,000 patients that their electronic medical records were inappropriately accessed by one of its staff members. The improper access was identified during a November 2016 review of EMR access logs. The audit revealed an unusual...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 20, 2017 | HIPAA News
The first HIPAA settlement of 2017 has been announced by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR). This is also the first settlement to date specifically based on an unnecessary delay to breach notification after the exposure of...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 20, 2017 | HIPAA News
MAPFRE Life Assurance Company of Puerto Rico – A subsidiary of MAPFRE S.A., of Spain – has agreed a $2.2 million settlement, with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, to resolve potential noncompliance with the Health Insurance...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 20, 2017 | HIPAA News
During her campaign to become Republican state senator for Virginia in 2015, Henrico County physician Siobhan Dunnavant, M.D., impermissably used patients’ contact information – classed as protected health information under HIPAA Rules – to garner donations from...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 13, 2017 | HIPAA News
Over the past two weeks, the number of organizations that have had their MongoDB databases accessed, copied, and deleted has been on the rise. Ethical Hacker Victor Gevers found in late December that many MondoDB databases had been left unsecured and were freely...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 25, 2016 | HIPAA News
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) has agreed to a $650,000 settlement with The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) . The settlement resolves HIPAA breaches that contributed to the university suffering a malware...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 22, 2016 | HIPAA News
The Health Information Trust Alliance and the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) and t(HITRUST) have revealed a new collaboration. The aim is to lessen – and hopefully completely prevent – redundant assessments and their associated...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 20, 2016 | HIPAA News
St. Joseph Health (SJH) has agreed, with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, to settle potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules for the sum of $2.14 million. SJH is required to pay the figure to OCR and adopt a...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 12, 2016 | HIPAA Advice, HIPAA News
The Department of Health and Human Services has issued updated guidance on HIPAA and healthcare cloud computing to help covered bodies use the cloud without risking a HIPAA breach. The main emphasis of the guidance is the use of cloud service providers (CSPs). Cloud...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 20, 2016 | HIPAA News
Following the violation of the privacy of patients WakeMed Health and Hospitals has been ordered to pay a fine of $70,000 by a North Carolina Bankruptcy Court. The violations happened when submitting proofs of claim to the bankruptcy court. Documents were filed...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 8, 2016 | HIPAA News
OCR normally to settles HIPAA compliance issues through voluntary compliance and non-punitive means, although financial penalties are now becoming more the norm. If OCR investigators find HIPAA violations, financial penalties may be issued. Fines of up to $1.5 million...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 30, 2016 | HIPAA News
The investigation into the 2015 Bizmatics data breach by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has closed. The breach, which was identified in late 2015, affected many of the company’s clients. It was found that the malware was...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 20, 2016 | HIPAA News
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has revealed it will be increasing the amount of investigations of small PHI breaches with immediate effect. violations impacting less than 500 individuals will now be subjected to tighter...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 16, 2016 | HIPAA News
A major number of cases of abuse of nursing home and assisted living center residents have been seen recently. The cases have seen the taking of degrading and demeaning photographs and videos of residents by employees of nursing centers, and sharing the photos and...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 16, 2016 | HIPAA News
In 2016, WTHR 13 carried out an investigation into the improper disposal of sensitive data by pharmacies. The investigation was initiated following a theft that took place at the home of an Indiana resident. A drug addict targeted the person knowing that she had pain...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 10, 2016 | HIPAA News
A former staff member of Tampa General Hospital has been convicted of wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information and wire fraud. Shanakia Benton was accused of illegally obtaining the protected health information of patients during the time...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 27, 2016 | Cybersecurity
In a recent report released by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General, a third of hospitals do not have sufficient HIPAA-compliant EHR contingency plans in place, although the majority are “largely addressing” HIPAA requirements for...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 23, 2016 | HIPAA News
Following the 2.7 million HIPAA breach settlement with Oregon Health & Science University is news of yet another multi-million-dollar settlement with another university. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights revealed two days ago...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 16, 2016 | HIPAA News
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) has agreed to settle a case with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights which arose from two data breaches suffered in 2013. A penalty of $2.7 million will be paid by OHSU to settle alleged...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 13, 2016 | HIPAA News
Cyberattacks on healthcare groups are now commonplace and, as long as it is profitable for hackers to attack healthcare organizations, the cyberattacks will continue. Given the number of healthcare data violations now being reported, it is evident that the healthcare...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 1, 2016 | HIPAA News
Catholic Health Care Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia (CHCS) has agreed to settle alleged HIPAA violations with the OCR and has agreed to put in place a Corrective Action Plan (CAP). CHCS will also pay a financial fine of $650,000. CHCS is the sole...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 19, 2016 | HIPAA News
Recently an officer from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) found a number of medical records in a recycling dumpster, accessible to the public, in Broad Ripple Park, Indianapolis. A quantity of confidential documents were located in file folders...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 7, 2016 | HIPAA News
Recently, the head of the House Select Investigative Panel tasked with reviewing the trade of baby body parts by abortion clinics corresponded with the director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights asking an investigation into...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 3, 2016 | HIPAA News
In a recent ruling the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found that a former town administrator of Townsend, MA., violated the HIPAA Privacy Rule in June last year. This occurred when he posted an “information packet” online...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 23, 2016 | HIPAA News
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has fined New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) $2.2 million for permitting patients to be filmed for a TV show without receiving prior permission from the patients. In 2011, an ABC crew was...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 22, 2016 | HIPAA News
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has revealed a compensation settlement has been agreed with Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic, P.A., of North Carolina over alleged breaches of HIPAA Rules. Raleigh Orthopaedic has agreed to pay OCR...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 17, 2016 | HIPAA News
A legal case has been initiated in Federal Court in San Jose, California by cancer patients who claim they have had their privacy violated after visiting the websites of cancer institutes. The plaintiffs allege that the websites of some cancer institutes contain...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 5, 2016 | HIPAA News
Data violation notification laws in Tennessee have been reviewed to better protect state residents. The new law requires organizations to issue breach notifications to state residents more quickly, while the range of information covered has been widened. When the new...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 19, 2016 | HIPAA News
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research has settled potential HIPAA violations for $3.9 million with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights. This is the second largest settlement penalty agreed with OCR, just below the $4.8 million...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 17, 2016 | HIPAA News
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has revealed it has reached a settlement with North Memorial Health Care of Minnesota over what is claimed were HIPAA violations arising from a 2011 data breach. North Memorial has agreed to pay...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 1, 2016 | HIPAA News
The Office for Civil Rights encourages suggestions from HIPAA-covered bodies about aspects of HIPAA that are unclear or need further clarification. Some of the inquiries submitted via the OCR website indicate some covered bodies are struggling to comprehend the Health...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 24, 2016 | HIPAA News
A report of an investigation into South Carolina’s Medicaid agency by The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General has been published The investigation was carried out in 2013 following the 2012 hacking of the Revenue Department and a...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 20, 2016 | HIPAA News
OCR has revealed it has come at a settlement with a Los Angeles-based provider of physical therapy services after the discovery of HIPAA Privacy Rule breaches in 2012. Complete P.T., Pool & Land Physical Therapy, Inc., (CPT) has said they will pay a fine of...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 4, 2016 | HIPAA News
OCR has ordered a HIPAA-covered entity to pay civil monetary penalties for HIPAA breaches. Lincare Inc. must to pay $239,800 for violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule which were found during the investigation of a complaint about a breach of 278 patient records. The...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 3, 2016 | HIPAA News
A recent survey carried out by Legal Workspace suggests that many are not. In fact, most health attorneys are not in adherence with HIPAA Rules and have failed to implement the appropriate technical, administrative, and physical measures to keep PHI/PII secure. Legal...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 22, 2016 | Cybersecurity
A nursing assistant from the Parkside Manor assisted-living center in Kenosha, WI., has been fired from her job for recording a video of a practically naked 93-year-old Alzheimer’s patient and sharing it on Snapchat. Recently an unwelcome trend has emerged involving...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 17, 2016 | HIPAA News
TigertText has revealed the launch of two new communication solutions for healthcare providers. The two new devices have clear potential, and could convince many healthcare providers to start replacing pagers and faxes. The new products, named TigerPage &...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 16, 2016 | HIPAA News
The healthcare industry trails well behind every other industry sector when it comes to implementing new technology. It is an acknowledged fact that the sector appears to dear change, even when those alterations stand to significantly improve the lot of patients. With...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 13, 2016 | HIPAA News
Microsoft will be stopping support and security updates for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 as of Wednesday January 12, 2016. All users of Internet Explorer must switch to Internet Explorer 11, or make the switch over to Microsoft Edge, in order to continue receiving...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 12, 2016 | HIPAA News
Organizations operating in Oregon must now adhere with a new data breach law that came into effect on January 1, 2016. If a data breach that exposes the personal information of more than 250 state residents is experienced, a breach notice must be filed to the Oregon...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 11, 2016 | HIPAA News
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has started 2016 with the launch of a brand new website interface, and has now followed up on previous assurance by issuing new guidance on HIPAA. This is the first in what is expected to be a...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 9, 2016 | HIPAA News
The FTC has also ordered Henry Schein Practice Solutions, Inc., to pay a fine of $250,000, and the company must also comply with a 20-year consent order after a recent ruling said the company had “falsely advertised the level of encryption it provided to protect...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 7, 2016 | HIPAA News
The Department of Health and Human Services has revealed a final rule permitting certain covered bodies to disclose specific elements of Protected Health Information (PHI) to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), altering the HIPAA Privacy...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 6, 2016 | HIPAA News
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights website has completed a redesigned recently, upgrading with new features, a responsive design and a more user-friendly feel. The redesign was part of the Reimagined HHS.gov project. The aim was to...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 5, 2016 | HIPAA Advice
The Federal Communication Commission has released a Declaratory Ruling and Order to clear up any confusion the rules in relation to HIPAA and patient telephone calls. Some healthcare suppliers have had difficulty with the rules regarding HIPAA and patient telephone...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 30, 2015 | Cybersecurity
The Allina Health System Minneapolis Isles clinic has notified around 6,000 patients of a breach of their Protected Health Information (PHI). The clinic, located at 2800 Hennepin Avenue, found instances of improper PHI disposal had occurred after documents including...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 24, 2015 | HIPAA News
The Office for Civil Rights recently release its first financial penalty to an organization that experienced a data violation after its staff responded to a phishing campaign. The case lead to The University of Washington Medicine agreeing to a $750,000 fine to settle...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 21, 2015 | HIPAA News
New cybersecurity measures specifically for the healthcare industry have been added to the Omnibus bill signed into law by Congress late last week. The aim of their inclusion is to help healthcare organizations tackle the growing danger of cyberattacks, and supply...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 20, 2015 | HIPAA News
TigerText, the largest supplier of secure text messaging solutions, has revealed the its latest initiative, TigerText Anywhere: A HIPAA compliant secure texting app for desktop computing. TigerText’s HIPAA compliant text message platform has already been a great...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 16, 2015 | HIPAA News
The Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General has recently published the results of information system reviews conducted on three Californian Medicaid managed-care organizations (MCOs), revealinf numerous, significant security...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 16, 2015 | HIPAA News
Day Pitney LLP has launch of a new HIPAA Self-Assessment Tool just before of the second round of Dept. Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights HIPAA-compliance audits. The law firm, with approximately 300 attorneys in it its Connecticut, New Jersey, New...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 15, 2015 | HIPAA News
University of Washington Medicine has agreed to settle a HIPAA fine of $750,000, for potential HIPAA violations with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, arising from a 90,000-record data breach experienced in 2013. There has been an...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 10, 2015 | HIPAA News
An HIPAA fine of $15,000 has been issued by the attorney general to University of Rochester Medical Center for a breach of patient privacy that happened in March, 2015. It is not only the Office for Civil Rights that issues financial penalties for violations of HIPAA...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 2, 2015 | HIPAA News
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has agreed a HIPAA violation fine of $3.5 million with Puerto Rico Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee Triple S Management Corporation. This is the second HIPAA violation fine to be revealed in the space...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 27, 2015 | Cybersecurity
Following a data breach that occurred back in 2011, the HHS has revealed that Lahey Hospital and Medical Center has agreed to settle a case with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) over alleged HIPAA violations for $850,000. Lahey Hospital and Medical Center has agreed...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 26, 2015 | HIPAA News
A legal case has been filed by the Texas attorney general’s office against Alliance Health Management & Consulting Inc., for the improper disposal of Protected Health Information (PHI) of patients. The home healthcare management company is no longer operating,...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 14, 2015 | HIPAA News
This week a case against University of Cincinnati Medical Center (UCMC) was presided over by Judge Jody Luebbers in the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in relation to the posting of Protected Health Information of a patient on social media. The incident that lead...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 12, 2015 | Cybersecurity
Following the 2012 theft of a laptop computer containing the unencrypted data of 8,883 Connecticut residents, Hartford Hospital – and one of its Business Associates, EMC Corporation (EMC) – have agreed to a settlement with the Connecticut Office of the...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 7, 2015 | HIPAA News
Boston US Attorney’s Office has revealed that a unit of pharmaceutical company Warner Chilcott has agreed to plead guilty to healthcare fraud, and will be required to pay $125 million to resolve civil and criminal liability. The legal case against the pharmaceutical...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 30, 2015 | HIPAA News
As part of Phase IV of the CAQH® CORE® Operating Rules, the CAQH® Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE®) recently approved new national rules for electronic HIPAA transactions. These new rules for electronic HIPAA transactions govern four groups...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 15, 2015 | HIPAA News
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) has developed two new resources to help groupsput in place the new ICD-10 codes required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The new resources, ICD-10 State Workers’ Compensation...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 10, 2015 | HIPAA News
The newly appointed Deputy Director for Information Privacy at the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has been adjusting to her new role at the OCR since her appointment earlier this year, but until recently she has not given spoken to...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 2, 2015 | HIPAA News
Cancer Care Group, an Indiana-based radiation oncology private physician practice, has agreed to settle with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights for $750,000, for potential HIPAA breaches relating to a 2012 data violation. In August...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 1, 2015 | HIPAA News
Fitbit, America’s leading producer of activity and fitness trackers, announced it has developed a HIPAA compliant wellness platform which it should corner the lucrative healthcare market. The company has dabbled with health and fitness trackers for the healthcare...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 1, 2015 | HIPAA News
The VA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has recently issued the findings of its administrative examination of into improper web-based collaboration technology by the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA). It found the agency is particularly vulnerable to data...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 1, 2015 | HIPAA News
The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has released a Declaratory Ruling and Order to clarify the rules in relation HIPAA and patient telephone calls. Some healthcare providers have had difficulty understanding the rules regarding HIPAA and patient telephone...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 26, 2015 | HIPAA News
This week, the Vice President and Deputy Director of the American Hospital Association (AHA) sent a correspondence to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMMS) revealing concern over the implementation of Health Plan Identification numbers (HPIDs) and...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 25, 2015 | Cybersecurity, HIPAA News
Being compliant with HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules can be a challenge for all organizations, regardless of size. However, smaller healthcare providers tend to have more issues. Budgets tend to be tighter, and a lack of suitable staff means progress is slow. This...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 19, 2015 | HIPAA News
In May, The University of Rochester Medical Center experience a data violation after a member of staff took the Protected Health Information (PHI) of patients to a new employer, The employee in question, who was trying to ensure continuity of patient care, was a...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 16, 2015 | HIPAA News
A recent ePHI data security audit completed by the New York Office of the State Comptroller has seen Roswell Park Cancer Institute pass with no HIPAA violations identified. The healthcare provider was commended for the effort it has put in to protecting the privacy of...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 16, 2015 | HIPAA News
Two employees who retained the Protected Health Information (PHI) of patients after their employment at Arkansas Children’s Hospital was terminated, did not violate the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) according to a rulign made by the U.S...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 25, 2015 | HIPAA News
Electronics giant Samsung has yet to issue a fix for a a security vulnerability existing on Samsung Galaxy devices, 7 months after the company was first alerted to it. A hacking vulnerability affecting S3 to S6 models of Samsung Galaxy phones was identified that...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 19, 2015 | HIPAA News
Deven McGraw been appointed to the role of Deputy Director of Health Information Privacy, and must get the agency auditing, advising and enforcing as it is supposed to be. Ms McGraw will be filling the role left vacant by departure of Susan McAndrew, who retired last...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 19, 2015 | HIPAA News
A survey recently released by Healthcare Information Security Today (HIST) shows many Covered Entities (CEs) are making the same compliance errors that were uncovered during the initial phase of audits. It has been three years since the OCR finished the pilot phase of...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 18, 2015 | HIPAA News
Microsoft has revealed it will be stopping ceasing patches and software updates for Windows Server 2003 on July 15, 2015. Any HIPAA-covered body that is still running the defunct software on any of its servers after this date will be in violation of the HIPAA Security...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 11, 2015 | Cybersecurity, HIPAA News
A lack of a appropriate workforce with appropriate skills to improve cybersecurity defenses is leading many CISOs and CIOs to look outside their organizations for assistance. Businesses and healthcare suppliers are now increasingly hiring third party consultants and...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 8, 2015 | HIPAA News
A former business owned by Crown Point Medical Tests has breached the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) after it did not securely dispose of files containing the Protected Health Information (PHI) of at least 167 people. The victims had...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 4, 2015 | HIPAA News
Cybercriminals are stealing healthcare IT devices to gain access to Protected Health Information (PHI) so they can can make false insurance claims, apply for credit, and obtain medical prescriptions and services. This is one of many ways that data is obtained to...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 2, 2015 | HIPAA News
North Dakota and Nevada have updated their breach notification laws this year, joining the growing list of states to do so. In May 2017, new laws were passed to tighten up the legislation and expand “personal information” definitions, with the two states following the...
by Ryan Coyne | May 25, 2015 | HIPAA News
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has confirmed – to Fierce Health IT – that its preliminary HIPAA surveys have now been issued, marking the start of the 2015 HIPAA compliance audits. In a recent article in the National Law Review,...
by Ryan Coyne | May 17, 2015 | HIPAA News
A Business Associate (BA) of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has issued a notification to the healthcare center, and many other clients, of a HIPAA breach caused by a member of staff. The now former staff member is accused of having stolen the records of...
by Ryan Coyne | May 6, 2015 | HIPAA Advice
The Security Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) reqiores that all covered bodies put in place the appropriate administrative, physical and technical safeguards to keep PHI secure. Failure to adopt those basic minimum...
by Ryan Coyne | May 1, 2015 | HIPAA Advice
Calculating the cost of a HIPAA data violation is not a simple process, at least not until a number of years after a data breach happened. Corrective actions must be taken following a data breach, and the cost of notification and damage mitigation can escalate....
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 29, 2015 | HIPAA News
According to HIPAA Rules, healthcare providers and other covered entities (CEs) are allowed to use the Protected Health Information (PHI) of patients – and share this data with others – provided that this data has been de-identified. It must not be possible for PHI...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 21, 2015 | HIPAA News
Protected Health Information (PHI) is kept secure under Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Rules, which requires adherence from covered entities (CEs) to put in place a number of controls to ensure that healthcare data is not disclosed to...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 16, 2015 | HIPAA News
The second round of HIPAA compliance audits have yet to commence, the last round was in 2012, but they are supposedly returning and will be bigger and bolder than before. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) indicated to...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 9, 2015 | HIPAA News
Microsoft Office 365 cloud services for the healthcare industry has been awarded the highest possible HITRUST CSF rating – achieving a maximum score of five – in a certification review of its security and privacy controls begun by Centura Health. The Health...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 28, 2015 | HIPAA News
Law firm, Day Pitney LLP, has released a warning to healthcare workers to be careful when disclosing Protected Health Information, even when asked to supply medical records to attorneys under subpoena. A Connecticut Supreme Court ruling in November 2014 allowed a...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 21, 2015 | HIPAA News
The last month has seen one HIPAA data breach affecting 150,000 individuals and another where affecting 11 million individuals. Both incidents have were experienced this month, with the most recent large data breach affecting almost three times the number of...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 16, 2015 | HIPAA News
An Illinois house committee will be meeting soon to debate the privacy issues raised by the installation of web based video cameras in nursing home residents’ bedrooms and how HIPAA Rules and the Wiretap Act regulations can be complied with, according to a recent CBS...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 11, 2015 | Cybersecurity, HIPAA News
Government department heads and industry leaders will be attending the 23rd National HIPAA Summit to give updates on the work that has been completed in the last year and to provide information on new legislation and regulations. The summit also offers the chance for...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 4, 2015 | HIPAA News
The Medical College of Wisconsin has release a statement revealing that a data breach suffered has affected approximately 400 of its patients. WDJT Milwaukee, an affiliate of CBS, was contacted on Feb 28, 2015 by a spokesperson for the Medical College of Wisconsin...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 28, 2015 | HIPAA News
The Aventura HIPAA breach, discovered in June 2014, has lead to a lawsuit being filed by a patient of the hospital, according to a Courthouse News Service report. The lawsuit was taken by Aventura patient, Kellie Lynn Case, in the Miami Federal Court. She is claiming...
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