HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 9, 2024

Mark Kevin Robison, a former vice president of Commonwealth Health Corporation (now Med Center Health) in Kentucky has been sentenced to 2 years’ probation and ordered to pay $140,000 in restitution after reaching a plea agreement with federal prosecutors over a HIPAA violation.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 18, 2023

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights is the main enforcer of HIPAA compliance; however, state Attorneys General also play a role in enforcing compliance with the Rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). million individuals and for delayed breach notifications.

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Recently, NIST issued a draft update (SP 800-66r2) to its 2008 publication: An Introductory Resource Guide for Implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule, and sought feedback from industry stakeholders ahead of the publication of the final version of the guidance. Background. Now that H.R.

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Compliancy Group

MARCH 24, 2025

OCR was investigating Health Fitness for a potential HIPAA Security Rule violation that may have led to several breaches that compromised patient information. Risk Analysis Failures Risked Patient Privacy Between October 15, 2018, and January 25, 2019, Health Fitness Corporation, a HIPAA business associate, filed four breach reports with OCR.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 10, 2023

Is SurveyMonkey HIPAA compliant? At the present time, SurveyMonkey is HIPAA compliant. Is SurveyMonkey HIPAA Compliant? In its role as a Business Associate, SurveyMonkey is HIPAA compliant. Screening, authorization, and HIPAA training of SurveyMonkey staff. Data backup and disaster recovery plans.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 12, 2023

One of the challenges with developing HIPAA was to create rules that would correct inefficiencies and get the healthcare system working more harmoniously. The way that HIPAA needed to be written has naturally led to the legislation receiving a lot of criticism. How HIPAA has Benefited Healthcare Organizations.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Aidan Simister, Co-Founder and CEO of Lepide In 2023, HIPAA fines amounted to $4,176,500, which is a rise of over $2,000,000 in 2022. So yes, HIPAA fines have doubled. So, a drastic surge in HIPAA fines raises questions about the underlying causes, and whether this is being seen the world over. So, how can we do that?

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

The HIPAA Journal has compiled healthcare data breach statistics from October 2009, when the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) started publishing summaries of healthcare data breaches on its website. MN Business Associate 190,000,000 Hacking/IT Incident 2 2015 Anthem Inc.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 28, 2022

GAO explained in its report that between 2015 and 2021, the number of individuals affected by healthcare data breaches at healthcare providers, health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, and business associates of those entities has ranged from 5 million to 113 million each year.

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 21, 2022

There are – and always have been – gaps in HIPAA and, after more than a quarter of a century, some have yet to be addressed. Most of the gaps in HIPAA are attributable to omissions from the original Act, provisions of HIPAA and HITECH that have never been enacted, and the increasing use of technology in healthcare.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Before what he referred to as the major ramp up in attacks against healthcare that began in 2015, there was "an appreciable minority of patients who were uncomfortable providing all their information to their doctors," he told attendees at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum in Boston earlier this month.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It has been another bad year for healthcare data breaches, with some of the biggest HIPAA breaches of 2022 resulting in the impermissible disclosure of well over a million records. That’s more than any other year to date apart from 2015 when Anthem Inc reported its 78.8 The Biggest HIPAA Breaches of 2022. Million Records.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 25, 2022

With at least six weeks before final numbers are in, the Department of Health and Human Services HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website is reporting 713 major healthcare data breaches in 2021, an increase of more than 7.5 This is the second-largest number of records reported breached on the government site since 2015. million individuals.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 24, 2023

For the first time since 2015, there was a year-over-year decline in the number of data breaches reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR), albeit only by 1.13% with 707 data breaches of 500 or more records reported. There is also a risk of financial penalties from regulators.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 26, 2023

HIPAA enforcement discretion occurs when the Secretary for Health and Human Services (HHS) announces the Department will exercise discretion in the enforcement of HIPAA Rules. Typically, Notices of Enforcement Discretion last between 72 hours and 60 days, are state or region-specific and apply to specific provisions of the HIPAA Rules.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 3, 2024

The HIPAA transactions and code sets rules have the objective of replacing non-standard descriptions of healthcare activities with standard formats for each type of activity in order to streamline administrative processes, lower operating costs, and improve the quality of data. diagnoses, procedures, and drugs). Health Care Claims Status.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 19, 2023

ADEC Innovations Healthcare has recently been confirmed as being in full compliance with all appropriate provisions of the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Breach Notification, and Omnibus Rules, and the HITECH Act.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 27, 2022

The final chapter of the Excellus Health Plan 2015 data breach that affected more than 9.3 A settlement has been reached between the plaintiffs’ attorneys and the company in the Excellus HIPAA class action lawsuit, pending judicial review. Basis of Excellus HIPAA Class Action Lawsuit. The hidden benefits of HIPAA compliance: .

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Steven Brown, ACLU of RI Executive Director, told HIPAA Journal, “To this day, it remains unclear how and why UHC provided RIPTA with the personal and healthcare information of non-RIPTA state employees, and why it took over four months for RIPTA to notify both their employees and other affected individuals that their information had been hacked.”.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Back in 2015, we created a post on cloud usage in healthcare, where we researched this topic and predicted that we will see the growth of this industry. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Michael Dunlop Cloud technology application in healthcare is not new.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 6, 2023

The Department of Justice has announced one of its first prosecutions under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 in a case involving the theft and sale of Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers. The post Florida Man Pleads Guilty in Medicare Beneficiary Identifier Trafficking Case appeared first on HIPAA Journal.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 10, 2023

HIPAA requires data breaches to be reported, but the HHS only tracks cyberattack-related data breaches as hacking/IT incidents. Across the 701 data breaches, the records of 51,884,675 individuals have been breached, which is more than any year other than 2015, which included the 78.8 million-record breach at Anthem Inc.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 31, 2024

Aside from 2015, the number of reported security breaches in healthcare has increased every year although the rate of increase is slowing and 2024 could see the healthcare industry start to turn the corner. In January 2024, the CPGs were unveiled. In 2023, an average of 373,788 healthcare records were breached every day. There was a 10.4%

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 21, 2022

In 2015, three individuals were arrested in connection with the scheme following an investigation by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office in New Orleans and the U.S. The post 15-Month Jail Term for Woman Who Stole Over $200,000 Using Stolen Patient Data appeared first on HIPAA Journal. Postal Inspection Service.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

For context, I re-visited a similar recent study on this topic, published in the November/December 2019 Annals of Family Medicine, looking at national trends in primary care visit use between 2008 and 2015. Note in the chart the emerging trend by 2015 of PCPs emailing with patients and offering after-hours appointments.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

For instance, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) followed the Enron fraud, updates to FISMA came after the 2015 Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breach, and the Securities and Exchange Commissions cybersecurity disclosure provisions were implemented after breaches at Equifax and SolarWinds. Now is the time to act.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

HIPAA Journal is conducting interviews with healthcare professionals and service providers to find out more about their compliance journeys, how the HIPAA Rules have affected their working lives, and the successes and challenges they have faced with HIPAA compliance. When did you first get involved with HIPAA compliance?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Amwell noted that electronic health record vendors such as Cerner and Epic could build telehealth functionality into their existing systems, and pointed to competitors such as Zoom and Twilio that have pivoted to providing telehealth amidst the relaxation of HIPAA requirements during the public health emergency. THE LARGER TREND.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2023

The data breach occurred at a law firm that helped Great Neck Dental acquire the assets of another dental practice in 2015. The post Alabama Healthcare Provider Announces 441,000-Record Data Breach appeared first on HIPAA Journal. All affected clients and employees have been notified by mail if they were affected.

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Total HIPAA

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A newsletter on the importance of importance of HIPAA logging requirements states this: 1. He altered patient records as part of a scheme to steal narcotics from a local hospital from January 2013 to May 2015. What HIPAA Security Rule Mandates. You can follow a HIPAA audit log template for your records.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2022

Capital raise comes amid rapidly growing demand for the company’s HIPAA compliant email and marketing solutions. Paubox , a leading provider of HIPAA compliant email and marketing solutions for healthcare organizations, today announced it has raised $10 million in funding from Arthur Ventures. Founded in 2015, Paubox is on the Inc.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 11, 2023

While the total number of affected individuals has not yet been confirmed, the breach is understood to have affected 11 million+ patients, which would make this the joint third-largest healthcare data breach to be reported by a HIPAA-regulated entity.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 9, 2023

The framework was released by NIST in 2015, updated in 2018, and the NIST CSF 2.0 The post HSCC & HHS Release Guide to Help Healthcare Organizations Adopt the NIST Cybersecurity Framework appeared first on HIPAA Journal. is due for release later this year.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 1, 2019

This is the first major institutional funding round for BurstIQ, which was founded in 2015 and has been financially sustainable since 2016, generating millions in annual revenue through commercial partnerships with marquee […]. BurstIQ and Elsewhere Partners announced today that they have closed a Series A capital raise, providing $5.5

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 9, 2022

The investigation into the incident confirmed that the user had improperly accessed patient information in the EHR system from October 15, 2015, until September 8, 2021. The post PHI of Over 500,000 Individuals Potentially Compromised in 4 Security Incidents appeared first on HIPAA Journal.

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Health Law Advisor

APRIL 13, 2022

With respect to its request for comment on sharing of civil monetary penalties and settlements, OCR explained: [ t]he RFI also will help OCR consider ways to share funds collected through enforcement with individuals who are harmed by violations of the HIPAA Rules.”. Sharing Funds with Individuals Harmed Due to HIPAA Violation.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 5, 2024

CareFirst announced the data breach in May 2015 and explained that a single database was compromised that stored data that members and other individuals enter to access CareFirst’s websites and online services. In response to major data breaches at Anthem Inc.,

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