$3 Million Settlement with Blackbaud Resolves SEC Allegations of Misleading...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has agreed to a $3 million settlement with Blackbaud Inc. to resolve charges that the company issued misleading statements about the impact of its 2020...
View ArticleFlorida HIPAA Laws
Florida HIPAA laws are the laws that apply in Florida to Covered Entities and Business Associates that preempt, or are additional to, HIPAA. It is important to be aware when Florida HIPAA laws apply in...
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February 2023 Healthcare Data Breach Report
The number of healthcare data breaches reported over the past three months has remained fairly flat, with only a small uptick in breaches in February, which saw 43 data breaches of 500 or more records...
View ArticleHIPAA Retention Requirements
The reason the HIPAA retention requirements need clarifying is that the distinction between HIPAA medical records retention and HIPAA record retention can be confusing. This article aims to clarify...
View ArticleWhat Gets Overlooked For HIPAA Compliant Email Retention?
In this post we cover the 5 Requirements for HIPAA Compliant Email Retention. In a recent survey we discovered that HIPAA compliant email retention is often overlooked and incorrectly implemented when...
View ArticleWhich Situations Allow a Medical Professional to Release Information?
The situations when a medical professional can release information vary depending on who is releasing the information, what information is being released, when it is being released, and where it is...
View Article99% of Hospitals Use Website Tracking Code That Transmits Data to Third Parties
New research indicates virtually all U.S. hospitals have been using tracking software on their websites that captures visitor data, including health information, and transfers that information to third...
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HIPAA Updates and HIPAA Changes in 2023
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was signed into law in 1996 and while there have been some significant HIPAA updates over the last two decades, the last set of major HIPAA...
View ArticleIs it a HIPAA Violation to Email Patient Names?
Whether or not it is a HIPAA violation to email patients names can depend on who an email is sent by, who it is to, what technologies have been implemented to secure the content of the email and – when...
View ArticleWashington Close to Enacting My Health My Data Act to Protect Health Data...
Washington state is on the brink of enacting a new law that will considerably expand privacy protections for consumer health data in the state and will address the current gap in privacy protections...
View ArticleOCR Proposes HIPAA Privacy Rule Update to Bolster Reproductive Health Care...
The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) about an update to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to strengthen privacy protections for reproductive health information....
View ArticleHow to Become HIPAA Compliant
How to become HIPAA compliant is one of the biggest challenges for many businesses operating in the healthcare and health insurance industries. Nonetheless, businesses who operate in these industries –...
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March 2023 Healthcare Data Breach Report
Our monthly data breach reports are based on data breaches of 500 or more records that have been reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) each month. The...
View ArticleDoE Issues New Guidance on FERPA and Student Health Records
The U.S. Department of Education has issued new guidance for schools and postsecondary educational institutions reminding them of their obligations under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act...
View ArticleNew HIPAA Regulations in 2023
New HIPAA regulations – and changes to other laws that Covered Entities have to take into account – are enacted fairly frequently. In recent years, new HIPAA regulations and changes to other laws have...
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HIPAA Updates and HIPAA Changes in 2023
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was signed into law in 1996 and while there have been some significant HIPAA updates over the last twenty five years, the last set of...
View ArticleFederal Court Dismisses FTC Complaint Against Kochava
A complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against the mobile app attribution and analytics company, Kochava, has been dismissed by a federal judge, although the door has been left open...
View ArticleWhat is Considered PHI Under HIPAA?
In a healthcare environment, you are likely to hear health information referred to as protected health information or PHI, but what is considered PHI under HIPAA? PHI is defined as different things by...
View Article$200,000 Penalty for Impermissible Sharing of Premom App Users’ Health Data
Easy Healthcare, the developer and distributor of the Premom Ovulation Tracker (Premom) app, has agreed to settle an FTC complaint that alleged violations of the FTC Act and Health Breach Notification...
View ArticleFTC Proposes Changes to Modernize the Health Breach Notification Rule
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule to strengthen the applicability of the Rule to health apps and other emerging direct-to-consumer...
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