The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) released a concept paper outlining its strategy for improving cybersecurity infrastructure within the healthcare sector. The paper calls for proposing healthcare-specific...more
Don’t forget that the required end-of-the-year reporting of any small breaches of unsecured protected health information (PHI) that were discovered in 2018 is coming up. Under the Health Insurance Portability and...more
2/13/2019
/ Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
OCR ,
PHI ,
Reporting Requirements
On October 15, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that Anthem, Inc. will pay $16 million to settle OCR’s investigation of its potential violations of the Health...more
10/24/2018
/ Anthem Insurance ,
Corrective Actions ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Hackers ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
OCR ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Phishing Scams ,
Settlement
On June 18, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced that an HHS Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) granted summary judgment to OCR in an enforcement action...more
8/2/2018
/ Administrative Hearings ,
Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ,
AHLA ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Confidential Information ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Encryption ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Health Information Technologies ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
OCR ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
Risk Assessment ,
Summary Judgment
Part of Bradley Arant’s Privacy and Information Security Team’s seven-part Data Breach Toolkit Webinar Series, the “Data Breach Response Planning: Laying the Right Foundation” webinar, led by Paige Boshell and Amy Leopard,...more
9/17/2015
/ Banking Sector ,
Banks ,
Breach Notification Rule ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
FFIEC ,
Financial Institutions ,
FTC v Wyndham ,
Hackers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
Incident Response Plans ,
Information Sharing ,
NIST ,
Privacy Concerns ,
Wyndham