Compliance & Legal
Organizations need to engage legal help to assist their CEOs to make smart decisions and improve breach responses, the research firm states.
Partners and Indiana University have reached multimillion dollar settlements with the DOJ over allegedly fraudulent grant funding, False Claims Act violations.
The OCR director stressed the importance of interoperability and protecting patient data during his Thursday morning session at Health Datapalooza.
The HHS secretary said interoperability is needed, but pledged his office will take a "60,000-foot" view.
Public health, clinical data or specialized registry electronic reporting options intended to help with meaningful use requirements.
Although only the breach only affected 1,391 patients, the size of the fine reflects the organization’s failure to implement HIPAA Security Rule policies and procedures.
Center for Children’s Digestive Health shared protected health info with FileFax, but didn't have a BAA in place.
Dell survey finds connecting to public Wi-Fi to access confidential information, using personal email for work and widespread use of public cloud services also pose risks to health information.
The federal government has proposed requiring that accreditors release reports on the problems they find during hospital inspections. Right now, the reports are secret.
Metro Community Provider Network failed to create a security management plan to protect patient data, an HHS investigation found.