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FTC Emerges as Leader in Health Privacy Enforcement
Kirk J. Nahra, Ali A. Jessani, and Samuel Kane, for WilmerHale: In the past several weeks, the FTC has taken two additional actions that further signal…
Biden Administration Announces National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy
Steve Adler, for The HIPAA Journal: The Biden Administration has unveiled its National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy (NCWES) which seeks to address the current cyber…
FDA Cybersecurity Requirements for Medical Devices Now in Effect
From the HIPAA Journal: On Wednesday, March 29, 2023, the medical device cybersecurity requirements of the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill – The Consolidated Appropriations Act,…
Exploring Data De-Identification in Healthcare
From Health IT Analytics: Adequately de-identifying healthcare data is critical for health systems, payers, and other stakeholders to ensure HIPAA compliance. However, the advent of newer…
Large Health System Agrees To Pay $200,000 as Part of OCR’s Fourteenth Right of Access Initiative Settlement
In its first enforcement action of 2021, on January 12th, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced…
Ways your Healthcare Company is Breaking the Law — Without Realizing it
According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Breach Portal, sometimes called the “Wall of Shame,” 418 breaches of HIPAA were reported in 2019.…
Data Breaches Can Result in Federal and State Liability
Regulatory bodies continue to impose severe penalties on covered entities who fail to protect patient data from unauthorized disclosure. Community Health Systems, Inc. recently settled claims…