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Baker Donelson

Medical Records Scams: What You Need to Know

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In today's digital age, the health care industry faces a growing threat from scammers who don't have to use sophisticated cyberattacks; they can use the most routine task to steal information from unwitting and...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: April 2024

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) is seeking comment on a proposed rule to implement reporting requirements for critical infrastructure entities, including health care entities, on cyberattacks and ransomware...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Avoiding the False Claims Act with Good Cyber Practices

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Since 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has been increasingly focused on adjudicating False Claims Act (FCA) matters for deficient cybersecurity practices. As the government increases scrutiny of data privacy and...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: December 2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 12  (December, 2023) Northwell Health in New York and Cook County Health in Chicago each experienced impacts from a breach at Nevada-based transcription company Perry Johnson & Associates...more

Nossaman LLP

CMIA Amendments Increase Health Care Providers’ Responsibility for Protecting Enrollees’ Privacy

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Newly enacted Assembly Bill 1184 (“AB 1184”) will effectuate revisions to the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act that will require significant changes to the operational practices and risk management assessments of...more

Epstein Becker & Green

A Guide to Practical, Regulatory, and Reputational Risk Management

Ransomware Particularly Inflicts Health Care and Life Sciences Organizations - Ransomware is a malicious cyber threat vector that employs encryption malware to prevent users from accessing their systems and data unless...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Virtual Event] 2021 Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - New York - May 7th, 8:25 am - 4:30 pm EDT

Our Virtual Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences provide updates on the latest news in regulatory requirement, compliance enforcement, and strategies to develop effective compliance programs. Watch, listen, and ask...more

Woods Rogers

Patient’s Right to Access Medical Records: HHS-OCR Targets Healthcare Providers Large and Small

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Elizabeth Barry Heddleston Associate Now is a great time for healthcare providers to assess their compliance with HIPAA’s right of access requirements. Not only is this a hot area of enforcement, patients’ rights to access...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Healthcare Systems Remain an Attractive Target for Ransomware Attacks

Users of Universal Health Services (UHS), one of the largest healthcare systems in the country, recently lost access to electronic medical records when UHS suffered a ransomware attack and took its systems offline to...more

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4 Ways to Protect ePHI Beyond HIPAA Compliance

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Given the choice between credit card data and digital health records, cybercriminals prefer the latter. A stolen credit card can be canceled. Electronic protected health information (ePHI) with its treasure-trove of...more

Dechert LLP

Nursing Homes and Other Senior Living Facilities Can Take Practical Steps to Reduce Litigation Risks

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The COVID-19 pandemic finds nursing homes and other senior living facilities confronting unprecedented operational challenges and risks. The highly vulnerable population served, combined with the near impossibility of both...more

Morgan Lewis

Responding to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus: Guidance for US Employers

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The outbreak of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has created a number of questions and compliance challenges for employers in the United States as well as across the globe. This is a fluid and rapidly changing...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Information Blocking And The Right To Access Initiative: Why Patients Struggle to Obtain their Medical Records and what the Office...

Access to healthcare information (or lack thereof) has always been touted as one of the key factors/necessities to realizing the promise of technology in the delivery of healthcare. Despite various legislative, judicial,...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: The Office for Civil Rights May Fine Providers for Failure to Provide Timely Access to Health Records: Now is the...

Most health care providers are aware that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) and its accompanying negotiations provide for the privacy and security of patients’ health care...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #191 – Trying to Protect Your Medical Information—Let’s Ask Questions About Data Security

In the top three of the list of highly sensitive personal data to be concerned about is our medical information. It’s so sensitive because it is so personal. It used to be that our medical information was located in paper...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2018 #3

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As of February 15, 2018, banks, insurance companies, and other financial services institutions and licensees regulated by the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) are required to file their first certification of...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Higher Education Highlights - Fall 2015

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Risk managers who also happen to be attorneys are not always protected by the attorney-client privilege, according to a recent decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In Casey v. Unitek...more

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