Yesterday, CMS announced an unprecedented level of Blanket Waivers and Regulatory changes to allow healthcare organizations to better deal with the COVID-19...
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Today, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the news that enforcement of HIPAA penalties around...
As expected, HHS together with CMS and ONC have released the 21st Century Cures Act Final rule that most people have been calling the Information Blocking rule...
A Tennessee-based medical imaging firm has agreed to pay $3 million in fines after seemingly doing just about everything wrong after experiencing a patient...
Over the past few years, the FDA has paid steadily more attention to potential cybersecurity holes created by medical devices. Now, health IT leaders are...
HHS says Security and Compliance Require Actions, then Policies The common-sense, scalable, and actionable cybersecurity guidance recently released by the US...
A new study by data security vendor Protenus has concluded that more than 3 million patient records were breached during the second quarter of 2018, in a sharp...
An administrative law judge has ruled that MD Anderson Cancer Center must pay $4.3 million to the HHS Office of Civil Rights due to multiple HIPAA violations...
A senior security executive with a major academic health system has told Congress that in addition to attacks by random attackers, healthcare organizations are...
Not long ago, a group of federal agencies announced the kickoff of the MyHealthEData initiative, an effort designed to give patients control of their data and...
