News & Analysis as of

HIPAA Privacy Rule Cybersecurity Business Associates

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

OCR at HHS Updates Guidance on Use of Online Tracking Technology by HIPAA-Regulated Entities

On March 18, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) updated its guidance on the use of online tracking technology by covered entities regulated by the Health...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy - July 15th - 18th, Charlotte, NC

Ideal for professionals with some compliance knowledge and experience, HCCA’s Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy offers practitioners a deeper understanding of effective compliance management in a healthcare setting. The...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

HIPAA on the Horizon in the New Year: Important Lessons from an Active 2023 and Regulatory Initiatives to Watch for in 2024

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on

2023 marked 20 years since the first compliance deadline under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (“HIPAA”) privacy rule. Despite the two decades of experience with HIPAA, compliance continues to remain...more

BakerHostetler

OCR’s October Initiatives: Strengthening Telehealth Security and HIPAA Compliance

BakerHostetler on

October has been a busy month for the OCR, which is tasked with enforcing the regulations issued under HIPAA. In the past week, the OCR released two new guidance documents aimed at reducing the privacy and security risks...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

OCR Cybersecurity Newsletter Emphasizes Significance of HIPAA Sanction Policies

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently offered covered entities and business associates (Regulated Entities) not-so-subtle reminders in its October 2023 Cybersecurity Newsletter that effective sanction policies can...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

OCR Investigator: Goal Is to Uncover ‘Root Cause,’ Remedy Harm From Violations

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 5 (May 2021) - Given the hundreds of thousands of HIPAA covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs) and the two dozen or so enforcement actions the HHS Office for Civil Rights...more

WilmerHale

Congress Passes Bill to Mitigate Penalties for Potential HIPAA Violations

WilmerHale on

On December 19, the Senate passed H.R.7898, which the House of Representatives had previously passed on December 9. This law amends the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act to require...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

HHS Issues HIPAA Guidance on Contacting Survivors of COVID-19 About Plasma Donation

Ballard Spahr LLP on

The Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued guidance clarifying how HIPAA’s Privacy Rule permits covered entities (in particular, health care providers and health plans) or their...more

White & Case LLP

COVID-19 and Data Protection Compliance in the US

White & Case LLP on

Irrespective of your industry, the current COVID-19 pandemic poses a new and unique challenge to organizations, their employees, and their customers. The emergence of COVID-19 has prompted organizations to collect and process...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] March Privacy Compliance Academy - March 9th - 12th, San Diego, CA

Dive into a broad spectrum of topics affecting healthcare organizations. Explore the latest laws, regulations, and developments to help you effectively manage your organization’s privacy compliance program. Our Academies are...more

Holland & Hart - Health Law Blog

Business Associates’ Use of Information for Their Own Purposes

Business associates may want to use a covered entity’s protected health information (“PHI”) for the business associates’ own purposes, e.g., for their own product development, data aggregation, marketing, etc. However, with...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Cybersecurity, Inside Jobs, Outside Jobs, and HIPAA

According to a February 12, 2019 Press Release from Protenus, a developer of analytics for patient privacy monitoring and compliance, 15,085,302 patient records were breached in 2018 – a startling number made even more...more

12 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide