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 | Feb 19, 2015 | HIPAA News
Recent progress in technology have allowed wearable devices to be developed to monitor health and fitness, and while these gadgets, monitors and sensors can significantly improve healthcare, they also carry a great danger of HIPAA violation. Over the past year the...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 11, 2015 | HIPAA News
Late last week the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee revealed thathealthcare IT security is to be addressed and that it will “take up the matter as part of a bipartisan review of health information security”. The Associate Press Agency reports...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 7, 2015 | HIPAA News
The deadline for making security breaches, affecting less than 500 people, from 2014 known is coming in the next three weeks. Any healthcare supplier or other covered entity that has not filed all 2014 breach reports must ensure they have all beensubmitted – and are...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 1, 2015 | HIPAA News
The HHS has reacted to a letter sent by Representative Peter DeFazio (D-OR) asking for greater transparency on HIPAA Rules relating to the mobile health industry, and has confirmed that the OCR will be working more closely with the industry to ensure HIPAA Rules are...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 23, 2015 | HIPAA News
The App Association (ACT) – an advocacy and educational group set up to represent mobile app developers – recently wrote to the Office for Civil Rights seeking clarification on HIPAA privacy rules, and how they apply to mobile developers. Developers are eager...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 19, 2015 | Cybersecurity
The Health IT Policy Committee’s Privacy and Security Workgroup has been reviewing a number of Big Data issues affecting the privacy and security of patients after two public hearings conducted by the organization in December 2014. The focus the working group to make...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 4, 2015 | HIPAA News
After the success of its HIPAA Enterprise Platform, Caspio has revealed it will now be offering HIPAA Compliant Professional Services for App Development, Caspio, a major cloud platform provider, offers its platform-as-a-service to businesses and groups in the public...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 2, 2015 | HIPAA News
January 1 normally sees many announcements from hospitals around the country advising the public of the first babies to be born in the New Year; however 2015 has seen less hospitals opting to make the announcements. Many healthcare suppliers have made the decision not...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 18, 2014 | HIPAA News
As reported recently on Bloomsberg News, pharmaceutical companies are using patient PHI to market their products, even though they are not allowed to have access to this information in accordance with HIPAA regulations, HIPAA covered entities are not allowed to...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 12, 2014 | HIPAA News
In order to adhere with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act regulations it is vitally important that all healthcare and health plan suppliers use appropriate security measures to keep the personal and medical information of employees and patients safe....
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 7, 2014 | HIPAA News
The Early Learning Coalition of Palm Beach County has revealed that a now departed member of staff has inappropriately accessed a database containing the medical records of up to 230,000 patients. The database included personal information of parents and children who...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 28, 2014 | HIPAA News
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (THHSC) hasreported a 2 million-record HIPAA breach by Xerox to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights. Allegedly Xerox did not returned PHI following the termination of the service...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 22, 2014 | HIPAA News
The Department of Health and Human Services’ HIPAA Security Rule has said, in an official release, that healthcare entities and their business associates must put in place measures to protect private and confidential data of patients. Many healthcare organizations...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 15, 2014 | HIPAA News
An appeal against the $1.44 million award for damages by Walgreen Co. has been lost. The group was it was ordered to pay the fine after a HIPAA Privacy Rule breach lead to confidential patient PHI being shared with unauthorized people. This is the first time that the...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 12, 2014 | HIPAA News
Software companies and mobile phone application developers are worried about HIPAA regulations and have argues that the legislation is hampering new innovation. The industry has recognized the for stringent controls to ensure data is recorded, stored and transmitted...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 9, 2014 | HIPAA News
A recent ruling by the Connecticut Supreme Court could allow for an influx of lawsuits from victims of theft and fraud who have had their secured private health information disclosed and have suffered losses or harm due to this. The case of Emily Byrne vs. Avery...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 2, 2014 | HIPAA News
The CMS has announced that the rule that a national health plan identifier must be used for transactions has now been “delayed until further notice”. The Office of E-Health Standards and Services of the CMS previously decreed in 2012 that it would require health...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 27, 2014 | HIPAA News
On October 2, The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released a report to congress providing guidance and recommendations on how new technology can be used in healthcare and how the safe exchange of health information can...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 23, 2014 | HIPAA News
A supplierer diagnostic radiology services has revealed that it has experienced a data breach that has potentially exposed the billing information and personal identifiers of 307,000 individuals from all across the U.S.A. Touchstone Medical Imaging, LLC found that an...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 15, 2014 | HIPAA News
The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing has, accidentally, disclosed protected health information on patients and is in breach of HIPAA regulations following a recent mailshot. The breach has now been publicly revealed and the patients affected...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 9, 2014 | HIPAA News
The Solaris Hospice is one of the main palliative care centers in the Southwest – working from 16 locations to provide care and support for more than 400 patients every day. The hospice’s workforce of 150 physicians and nurses work in a vast rural area in which...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 3, 2014 | HIPAA News
On Tuesday 30th September, California Governor Edmund Brown signed off on new legislation to improve the level of privacy protection for citizens of California. The new set of bills introduced a number of amendments to the legislation which included more transparent...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 24, 2014 | HIPAA News
The main focus at the the 7th annual conference, Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance Through HIPAA Security held this month in Washington D.C. was to highlight the current state of health information management and to explore the use of information...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 19, 2014 | HIPAA News
Aventura Hospital and Medical Center has announced a new security breach, the third suffered in the last two years, which has affected up to 82,601 individuals. The healthcare provider has only recently discovered the breach, although it started just a single day...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 11, 2014 | HIPAA News
The second round of HIPAA compliance audits has been put off until 2015 to give the OCR additional time to test its new internet portal. This next round of audits was initially scheduled to take place this fall. The new web portal is one of the new initiatives to...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 4, 2014 | HIPAA News
In the wake of high profile data breaches in recent months, in particular the breach of PHI across 209 hospitals run by CHS, compliance with HIPAA regulations is now high on the agenda, especially considering the large penalties being applied by the OCR. Any data...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 22, 2014 | HIPAA News
The recently passed HIPAA Omnibus Rule, normally labelled as the Megarule due to its extensive amendments to existing legislation , updates the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (1996) expanding its reach to include business associates of healthcare...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 13, 2014 | HIPAA News
Violations of HIPAA regulations, failures to ensure compliance and for accidentally causing the privacy of patients to be compromised will lead to healthcare organizations facing heavy fines. Criminal charges may also be filed if it can be proven that data was viewed...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 7, 2014 | HIPAA News
An Illinois a class action lawsuit that arose from the Massive HIPAA breach affecting the healthcare provider last August has been thrown out by circuit court in Kane County. The incident possibly exposed the data of almost 4 million patients when four unencrypted...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 23, 2014 | HIPAA News
A civil action lawsuit arising from HIPAA violations caused by a physician at the Johns Hopkins Health System has been settled for a $190 million. The settlement arose due to a HIPAA Privacy Rule violation caused by an obstetrician and gynecologist who had used a...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 17, 2014 | HIPAA News
Texan prosecutors recent;y filed an indictment in the Tyler District Court against Joshua Hippler, a 30-year-old former worker at an unnamed hospital in East Texas. In accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, individuals and...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 9, 2014 | HIPAA News
Over the past year the number of reported violations of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations has gone through the roof. The Department of Health and Human Services has seen a massive increase in late 2013 with the upward trend...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 1, 2014 | HIPAA News
The state of healthcare compliance in the US has been reviewed by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, following a survey carried out this summer. A report on the survey findings has now been released with the results showing that compliance is often not being given the importance...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 25, 2014 | HIPAA News
A recent comparative study completed on mobile phone users on both sides of the Atlantic has shown the differences and similarities in opinions about the security of mobile phones and the data they carry. The survey, operated by iReach Insights for Inhance...
by Ryan Coyne | May 15, 2014 | Cybersecurity
TigerText has revealed it will be presenting a free healthcare communications webinar in which former HHS regulator Adam Greene will be speaking about best practices for introducing a HIPAA-compliant mobile communications strategy. “Ask the Experts: Tips for a HIPAA...
by Ryan Coyne | May 7, 2014 | HIPAA News
The largest ever financial penalty for violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules has been issued this by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the HHS issue. The data breach was happened when a...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 16, 2014 | HIPAA News
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has revealed that it is to restart HIPAA compliance audit program this fall. Phase 2 will include 350 compliance audits which will be carried out on healthcare providers, healthcare clearing houses and health plans, along with 50 more...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 10, 2014 | HIPAA News
Carrying out an in depth risk assessment is a requirement under the HIPAA Security Rule; however it can be a complex process calling for all potential security weaknesses to be identified. The process can be a major task for any organization, especially when the...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 13, 2014 | HIPAA News
A recent announcement from the Ponemon Institute has shown the serious threat cyber attacks pose the healthcare industry and should serve as a warning that security must be improved. The cost to the industry is massive. Data breaches are estimated to cost the...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 27, 2014 | HIPAA News
The Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services is moving closer to commencing the next round of HIPAA compliance audits issuing a notice in the Federal Register stating its intention to begin a series 1,200 pre-audit surveys. The OCR is...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 7, 2014 | HIPAA News
A new data security report issud by healthcare IT security firm Redspin suggests the number of data breaches made known to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has increased by 138% over the course of the past year. The final figures could yet be even...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 5, 2014 | HIPAA News
All covered entities must submit annual reports of HIPAA breaches to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services and the deadline for filing 2013 breaches is coming quickly. While there is a requirement under the Breach Notification Rule for healthcare...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 15, 2014 | HIPAA News
Windows XP will no longer be HIPAA or meaningful use compliant in six weeks on some or all workstations, so there is a deadline of April 8 for organizations to migrate to a new OS as Windows XP of face possible penalties for breaching HIPAA. Any organization using...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 14, 2014 | HIPAA News
The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has revealed that version seven of the HITRUST Common Security Framework (CSF) – due to be issed later this month – will include a number of new privacy controls. HITRUST was set up in 2007 with the aim of helping the...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 5, 2014 | HIPAA News
President Obama is increasing up efforts to minimize gun violence; however some legal obstacles remain and the HIPAA Privacy Rule is currently obstructing the reporting of important information to the National Criminal Background Check System. The NCBC allows gun...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 3, 2014 | HIPAA News
A new HIPAA security breach has been discovered in Virginia involving 919 patients from the Riverside Health System which runs five hospitals in the Southeast Virginia area. The data violation did not involve tens of thousands of patients although the security breach...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 19, 2013 | HIPAA News
The a stolen laptop computer from a healthcare supplier belonging to Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates, Inc. (MEEI) has lad to a settlement of $1.5 million with the HHS Office for Civil Rights for HIPAA breaches. The U.S....
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 18, 2013 | HIPAA News
The Office for Civil Rights and the Office of the National Coordinator have both recently provided guidelines and tips which healthcare professionals can use to ensure that their devices are made secure and ePHI is properly safe. The advice has been issued on...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 14, 2013 | HIPAA News
Experian credit bureau has released a new report that predicts that 2014 will see a surge in data breaches. The report also foresees that the healthcare industry will most targeted. The report says that the reason healthcare is so attractive to hackers is the sheer...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 16, 2013 | HIPAA News
On 26th September, Lori Stein attended Cotton-O’Neil Diabetes and Endocrinology Center in Topeka and met with an endocrinologist for an appointment. Lori Stein´s checkup was standard in order to monitor her diabetes, but during her consultation she inquired if she...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 2, 2013 | HIPAA Advice
Social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube have the potential to lead to HIPAA breaches as they allow people to stay connected and share information with their friends, families, acquaintances, and in some cases, total strangers. Any...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 8, 2013 | HIPAA News
Healthcare organizations and their business client are facing fines for non-compliance following the introduction of new regulations which secure the privacy of patients and the security of their personal information. The Omnibus Final Rule was passed earlier this...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 3, 2013 | HIPAA News
Many healthcare groups were unwilling to implement the use Google Apps because under the new HIPAA rules, Google would have to sign a Business Associate agreement; something the internet giant had not completed. Google has now agreed to remove this obstacle and sign a...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 1, 2013 | HIPAA News
The Privacy Rule amended the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 to give people better controls over how their medical history can be used and disclosed to third parties. The Rule now prevents the disclosure or use of patient PHI for the...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 25, 2013 | HIPAA Advice
The HIPAA Omnibus Rule was passed in March this year, although the OCR gave covered bodies a grace period in which to bring their organizations strategies and procedures up to date with the new regulations. The Omnibus Rule amended HIPAA to cover Business Associates...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 18, 2013 | HIPAA News
The passing of the Omnibus Rule extended HIPAA’s reach to include business associates of HIPAA-covered bodies and requires them to comply with the same set of standards as the healthcare organizations with which they work. Business Associates are defined as any...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 28, 2013 | HIPAA News
Advocate Health Care, one of the nation’s biggest healthcare suppliers, has announced that it has experienced a major HIPAA security breach after four unencrypted laptops were illegally taken from the Advocate Medical Group administrative buildings in Park Ridge,...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 16, 2013 | HIPAA News
In a recent report from Spyglass Consulting, it is not just doctors who are signing up to medical BYOD schemes; nurses too are now registering and 69% of those polled said they bring their own mobile device to work with them. Mobile devices are not permitted to be...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 14, 2013 | HIPAA News
Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles was selected by reality TV star Kim Kardashian and Rapper Kayne West as the hospital to have their daughter delivered. Their baby was born on June 15th, but three days later some staff members started looking at the medical records...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 11, 2013 | HIPAA Advice
The Omnibus Final Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act came into effect on March 26, after a long period of amendments, deliveration and adjustments. The main aim of the new legislation is to amend the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules and...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 14, 2013 | HIPAA News
L.A Times has published an article which has revealed that a sequence of events has run which has now lead to in Shasta Regional Medical Center (SRMC) agreeing to a settlement of $275,000 for its breaches of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...
by Ryan Coyne | May 29, 2013 | HIPAA News
The accidental disclosure of electronic Protected Health Information stored on one of Idaho State University’s servers has led to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has issuing a large fine. The University discovered that a...
by Ryan Coyne | May 16, 2013 | HIPAA News
Mobile devices being stolen may be one of the main causes of HIPAA breaches, although human mistakes can easily lead to patient health data being accessible, with Dent Neurologic the latest healthcare group to suffer a major HIPAA breach due to the actions of a member...
by Ryan Coyne | May 9, 2013 | HIPAA News
Raleigh Orthopedic Clinic arranged for its X-ray films to be brought up to date and converted to digital media, the healthcare organization sought external assistance from a third party vendor. After locating a supplier that could offer the service and the selected...
by Ryan Coyne | May 7, 2013 | HIPAA Advice
The passing of the Omnibus Final Rule, also referred to as the HIPAA Mega Rule due to the extent of that it amends the current legislation, clears up many loose ends that were in place from the HIPAA Privacy Rule in relation to marketing. The use of Protected Health...
by Ryan Coyne | May 7, 2013 | HIPAA News
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the HHS has issued the largest ever financial penalty, $4.8m, for a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules. The data breach happpened when a computer server...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 27, 2013 | HIPAA News
Protected Health Information can easily be accessed by an unauthorized personnel if a document is left in a photocopier after copies have been made; however digital photocopiers can expose the personal health data of hundreds of thousands of people. When copies of...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 12, 2013 | HIPAA News
A New York identity thief who stole the medical information of almost 1000 patients and committed $10.7 million in Medicare fraud has been found guilty of HIPAA violations by a New York federal court and given a 12-year sentence in a federal penitentiary. Over a...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 27, 2013 | HIPAA News
A 911 dispatch office in Monroeville, Pittsburgh is being reviewed for a possible violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) after failing to secure protected health information. The Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 26, 2013 | HIPAA News
The HIPAA Omnibus Rule comes into today, March 26, and amends existing HIPAA regulations to provide greater security for patient data; extending the reach of HIPAA and changing regulations to bring them in line with the Health Information Technology for Economic and...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 25, 2013 | HIPAA Advice
Financial sanctions for healthcare organizations found in breach of HIPAA regulations are to be raised substantially as part of the HIPAA Omnibus Rule, which will also be applied to business associates and their subcontractors. The original fine structure was...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 3, 2013 | HIPAA News
According to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations, healthcare organizations must report data violations involving more than 500 people to the Office of Civil Rights and financial sanctions apply for HIPAA breaches; however security...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 26, 2012 | HIPAA News
The passing of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009 updated HIPAA, and as such it obliged the Department of Health & Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to complete a program of compliance audits to make...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 28, 2012 | HIPAA News
The theft of a portable hard drive from a staff member of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) possibly exposed the ePHI of almost 2,000 people. Following a review by the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), a settlement has been agreed and the...
by Ryan Coyne | May 29, 2012 | HIPAA News
An official announcement has been released by the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General that a settlement has now been agreed with South Shore Hospital. The healthcare supplier will have to pay a fine of $750,000 for violations of the state Consumer Protection...
by Ryan Coyne | May 24, 2012 | HIPAA News
Boston Children’s Hospital has released a press statement revealing a laptop issued to one of its staff member has been lost at a conference in Buenos Aires; possibly exposing the protected health records of 2,159 of its patients. The laptop had basic security...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 17, 2012 | HIPAA News
Before publishing Protected Health Information on any public website it is vital that the medium is reviewed for security risks. If a website is owned or controlled by a third party or a cloud service is supplied, a signed business associate agreement must also be...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 29, 2011 | HIPAA News
The Office for Civil Rights has released a statement confirming that a settlement has been agreed with Adult & Pediatric Dermatology, P.C., of Concord, Massachusetts after the accidental disclosure of almost 2,200 patients after a memory stick was taken from the...
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