We blogged on this back in early May, but compliance with individuals’ rights to access their PHI under HIPAA is even more critical now that OCR has announced that its
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Reflections on HIPAA Protections and Permissions in the Wake of the Orlando Tragedy
My heart goes out to any family member trying desperately to get news about a loved one in the hours and days following an individual or widespread tragedy, irrespective of…
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Election Year Predictions: Expansion of Federal Healthcare Privacy Regulation
Our partner Elizabeth Litten and I were quoted by our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch in her article in Medical Practice Compliance Alert entitled “6 Compliance Trends Likely to Affect…
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Six Tips for Physicians to Protect Patient Data on the Internet
Our partner Elizabeth Litten and I were once again quoted by our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch in her recent articles in Medical Practice Compliance Alert entitled “Misapplication of Internet…
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Hackers: Take My Health Information, But Please Don’t Take My Health
We know by now that protected health information (PHI) and other personal information is vulnerable to hackers. Last week, the Washington Times reported that the Department of Health and Human…
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Basic HIPAA Question for Mobile Health Application Developers: What Are You?
Health-related technology has developed light-years faster than health information privacy and security protection laws and policies, and consumers can find new mobile health applications for a wide range of purposes…
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HIPAA Holiday Cheer (Lament?)
On the twelfth day of breaches
my hacker sent to me:
Twelve Data Downloads
Eleven Plundered Patches
Ten Missed BA Contracts
Nine Malware Installs
Eight Mis-sent Faxes
Seven Stolen Laptops…
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Celebrities’ Health Information Compromised by Sony Hacking
Fox Rothschild partner Scott Vernick recently appeared as a guest on the Willis Report to discuss the fallout of the hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Click here to view the…
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Connecticut Supreme Court Decision Depicts Rubik’s Cube of Federal and State Privacy and Security Compliance
As if compliance with the various federal privacy and data security standards weren’t complicated enough, we may see state courts begin to import these standards into determinations of privacy actions…
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The Parade of Major Reported PHI Breaches Surges to 885 – Theft and Loss Dominate the Numbers
The number of large breaches of Protected Health Information (PHI) under HIPAA that have been reported on the so-called “Wall of Shame” (the HHS List) maintained by the U.S. Department …
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