In 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) Director Melanie Fontes Rainer announced that OCR will resume auditing Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”)...more
10/23/2024
/ Audits ,
Compliance ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
OCR ,
Risk Assessment
In an increasingly interconnected healthcare landscape, third party relationships play a critical role in operations, but they also introduce significant risk. To address this challenge, our webinar delves into the...more
3/27/2024
/ Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Health Care Providers ,
PHI ,
Popular ,
Risk Management ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Third-Party Risk ,
Webinars
Cybersecurity attacks on health care systems continue to pose a threat to national security and to patient safety. In the webinar Cybersecurity Best Practices in Health Care presented by Clark Hill attorneys John Howard and...more
8/29/2023
/ Best Practices ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Health Care Providers ,
National Security ,
Patient Safety ,
PHI ,
Popular ,
Webinars
On July 3, the Department of Health, and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) published a final rule establishing the statutory civil money penalties created by the 21st Century Cures Act (“Cures Act”)...more
The COVID-19 outbreak has led OCR to announce that it will exercise enforcement discretion to not impose penalties for HIPAA violations against healthcare providers treating patients through some commonly used social media...more
5/15/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Covered Entities ,
Data Privacy ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Good Faith ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
HIPAA Violations ,
Mobile Apps ,
OCR ,
PHI ,
Social Media ,
Telehealth