HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In March 2018, LifeBridge Health discovered a malware infection that provided unauthorized individuals with access to a server that hosted its electronic medical records, patient registration, and billing systems. The breach investigation determined the initial intrusion occurred 18 months previously in September 2016.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 24, 2024

It has been more than 2 weeks since the ransomware attack on Ascension and its hospitals are still operating under emergency procedures, with staff working with pen and paper due to the inability to access electronic medical records.

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Compliancy Group

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This comprehensive document governs patient care, worker safety, and privacy and confidentiality of protected health information (PHI). The updates provide more detailed guidance for preventing fraud, waste, and abuse, maintaining organization-level compliance programs, and considering infrastructural issues in healthcare compliance.

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Compliancy Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Because care requires using and exchanging sensitive patient information, adherence to U.S. When personal health information transcends international borders, vendors outside the U.S. When unauthorized parties gain access to this information, identity theft, fraud, and diminished care often result. Specifically, the U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 6, 2023

The attack forced the shutdown of its electronic medical record system and caused considerable disruption over several weeks, with the catholic health system having to cancel many appointments. Michael Medical Center. Lawsuits often fail when they are based solely on an elevated risk of identity theft and fraud.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 15, 2023

The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) investigates all reported breaches of the protected health information of 500 or more individuals and some smaller breaches to determine if the breach was caused by the failure to comply with the HIPAA Rules.

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 7, 2024

The onboarding process is pivotal in ensuring employees understand their job duties, engage in best cybersecurity practices, and comply with important regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Occupational Health and Safety Administration, and prevention of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in healthcare.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 15, 2022

The incident involved the exposure and potential theft of the protected health information of 318,400 patients, including names, addresses, birth dates patient account numbers, medical record numbers, health insurance information, testing, diagnostic, treatment, and claims information.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Connexin Software does business as Office Practicum and is a provider of electronic medical records and practice management software for pediatric practices. The forensic investigation confirmed the threat actor behind the attack exfiltrated files containing protected health information.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 2, 2023

Notification letters will be sent to the affected individuals in the coming weeks and credit monitoring, fraud consultation, and identity theft restoration services will be offered. The breach was recently reported to the Maine Attorney General as affecting up to 170,450 individuals.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 8, 2023

Paul Hoffman – has had his access to the electronic medical record system terminated. The types of information accessed included names, demographic information, and treatment information. The types of information accessed included names, demographic information, and treatment information.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Azura Vascular Care, a Pennsylvania-based operator of 70 outpatient vascular centers and ambulatory surgery centers in 25 states and Puerto Rico, notified the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights last month about a cybersecurity incident involving the protected health information of 348,000 patients. The incident was detected on November 9, 2023.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It should be noted that the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule requires the HHS and affected individuals to be notified about breaches of protected health information within 60 days of the discovery of a data breach. The investigation of the breach took six months, but it then took a further four months for affected individuals to be notified.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

in Iowa has recently confirmed that it was affected by the data breach at the electronic medical record provider, Eye Care Leaders. The attack exposed the protected health information of 542,776 current and former Wolfe Clinic patients. Wolfe Clinic, P.C The Hive ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the attack.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Challenges in Medical Data Management The healthcare sector contains an abundance of confidential information related to patients, medical procedures, treatments, and population health. This includes personal data, medical histories, laboratory results, insurance numbers, and more.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 24, 2023

Today, cNLU is being applied to billing/coding, trial enrollment, registry creation, clinical decision support, prior authorization, fraud/abuse detections, and other labor-intensive workflows. However, for many uses, there is one thing holding the technology back-it generates too much information and, relatedly, too much noise.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Challenges in Medical Data Management The healthcare sector contains an abundance of confidential information related to patients, medical procedures, treatments, and population health. This includes personal data, medical histories, laboratory results, insurance numbers, and more.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 11, 2023

Hackers could alter patient data resulting in a misdiagnosis or incorrect treatment being delivered, treatment is often delayed due to cyberattacks that take electronic medical record systems and other essential IT systems offline, and cyberattacks often cause financial harm to patients, with attacks often leading to identity theft and fraud.

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Provider Trust

JULY 25, 2022

To eliminate fraud in your health ecosystem, you must stay compliant with federal and state requirements for referring and ordering physicians. One challenge in monitoring ordering/prescribing physicians is acquiring information like NPI, names, and social security numbers (SSN). Recent OIG Enforcement Actions.

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AIHC

APRIL 5, 2022

Written by: AIHC Blogger This article provides educational information related to mitigating the risk of an unwarranted payer investigation. Due to the huge volume of claims payers receive to process, deny and pay, they have implemented various methods to track providers to detect potential waste, fraud and/or abuse.

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Compliancy Group

MARCH 19, 2024

Insurance carriers, cloud service providers, pharmacies, medical equipment manufacturers, and other organizations in this industry must comply with various health and safety regulations. It also reduces waste, fraud, and abuse that threaten the efficiency of healthcare delivery and services. name, phone number). healthcare.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 27, 2023

HIPAA made it easier for healthcare providers and health plans to share data electronically and that has helped patients by improving the continuity of care. HIPAA has helped to improve the accuracy of record keeping, making it easier to match medical records with the right patients, thus preventing medical errors.

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AIHC

APRIL 10, 2024

Checklist for Individual & Small Group Practices Written by: Nancie Lee Cummins, CFE, CHA, CIFHA, OHCC, CHCM, CHCO, CORCM This article provides an overview of Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and basic checklist of policies and procedures for compliance of smaller health care organizations.

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Healthcare Law Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In July 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Special Fraud Alert alerting practitioners to exercise caution when entering into arrangements with telemedicine companies. Leveraging AI can enable faster scans and shorter wait times while eliminating unnecessary manual work.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 3, 2024

Further, if you go looking for this information today, Google and Bing tell you about this 80%, not what the actual premium-to-benefit ratio is today. Originally, this information came from the Insurance Information Institute. What do we do about this? We need a data science department to weed these fraudulent payments out.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

A recent study in a JAMA publication, “Prevalence and Sources of Duplicate Information in the Electronic Medical Record,” helps drive discussion of bloat forward by focusing on one manifestation: the duplication of text from one patient note to another. Putting all necessary information in one place.

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AIHC

APRIL 10, 2024

Checklist for Individual & Small Group Practices Written by: Nancie Lee Cummins, CFE, CHA, CIFHA, OHCC, CHCM, CHCO, CORCM This article provides an overview of Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and basic checklist of policies and procedures for compliance of smaller health care organizations.

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Health Care Law Brief

APRIL 12, 2023

. § 405.986) or “reliable evidence” of fraud or “similar fault” (as defined in 42 C.F.R. MA plans will be required to have a Utilization Management Committee that conducts annual reviews of policies to ensure compliance with the foregoing. 3d 173, 191 (D.D.C. rather than a ‘limited duty to inquire.”

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Hall Render

JUNE 3, 2022

NCH Healthcare System switching vendor for electronic medical records in early June. Baystate Health names new chief information and digital officer. Justice Department says sweeping lab test fraud in Texas involved dozens of doctors and front companies. HCA names CEO of Florida hospital. MASSACHUSETTS.

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Hall Render

MAY 31, 2024

Jeff Landry signs bills Tuesday about health, economy, New Orleans water board MAINE Maine Medical Center To Open New Eight-Story Tower In Portland, Maine Northern Light shared private medical information with Facebook, lawsuit says MaineHealth CFO announces retirement Record numbers of nursing homes are shutting down in New England Gov.

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Hall Render

APRIL 7, 2023

Judge denies challenge to measure that would cap LA hospital exec pay COLORADO Builders show little interest in city, hospital employee housing project Capitol Pain Institute acquires 3 Colorado practices, ASC Colorado lawmakers seek financial information from hospitals in larger debate over health care costs Colorado to advance $1.4

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