Compliance & Legal

Metro Community Provider Network failed to create a security management plan to protect patient data, an HHS investigation found.

Organization asks HHS to move the deadline from Jan. 1, 2018, to July 1, 2018, to account for government delay in releasing final specs.

The biotech mogul gave about $15 million to Phoenix Children’s Hospital fund that included millions in deals that benefited his for-profit companies.

Urology Austin, a healthcare provider with locations throughout central Texas, began notifying its patients March 24 that hackers may have accessed patient records that included names, dates of birth, addresses, medical information and Social Security numbers.

"Any time we contract with any vendor on any of the relationships, then we go through the analysis: Are they a business associate or not?" said Beaufort Memorial Hospital CIO Ed Ricks.

While the number of flaws has decreased from year to year, HHS still needs to work on identity and access management, security training and incident response, among other areas.

Results of two polls published in the past week, from the Kaiser Family Foundation and Pew Research Center, demonstrate growing support for the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.

The engine provides an automated scored assessment that enables IT to understand how network changes may impact compliance with HIPAA and PCI standards.

The new system delivers optimized EHR data for physicians that is easy to digest and promotes new levels of clinical insights, the vendor says.

The settlement comes three years after two laptops were stolen from Horizon BCBSNJ's Newark headquarters. According to New Jersey officials, health data was left vulnerable as it was password-protected but not encrypted, as required by HIPAA and HITECH.