In a legal action noted by several privacy-minded observers, a woman in Cabell County, West Virginia filed suit in March against health care provider Marshall Health (the collective name for a group of clinical centers affiliated…
The Department of Defense’s TRICARE program disclosed last week that backup tapes containing medical records on nearly 5 million active-duty and retired military personnel and their dependents were stolen from the car of a contractor who…
Among the provisions of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act garnering significant attention are the changes to existing HIPAA requirements for covered entities to produce accounting of disclosures of protected health…
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a long-anticipated Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would implement the changes to accounting of disclosures requirements under the HIPAA Privacy Rule. HHS opened a 60-day comment…
As the Health IT Policy Committee’s Privacy and Security “Tiger Team” continues its work to provide recommendations and suggested policy guidance on health information exchange, there appears to be some concern among hospitals and other HIPAA-covered…
Joseph Conn of Modern Healthcare called attention in a blog post yesterday to the almost complete absence of civil penalties imposed against violators of the HIPAA Security and Privacy rules, pointing out that without some credible…
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act passed as part of the Recovery Act in February 2009 included a variety of revisions included to requirements already in effect under the HIPAA Security…
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