The New York Attorney General has issued a warning to healthcare providers, hospitals, and other organizations within the health supply chain that cyber criminals are using targeted COVID-19 phishing emails
Continue Reading New York Attorney General Warns Health Care Industry of COVID-19 Cyber Scams
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued a warning that it has received reports that someone has been impersonating an OCR inspector in
Continue Reading OCR Warning: Phone Scammer Posing as Investigator to Obtain PHI
On March 20, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published Guidance and a list of FAQs related to the provision of telehealth
Continue Reading Dos and Don’ts from OCR’s Guidance and FAQs on Telehealth and HIPAA
By Margaret J. Davino, Salvatore J. Russo and Nawa A. Lodin
In the Medicare Telemedicine Healthcare Provider Fact Sheet published March 17, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Continue Reading Medicare and OCR Relax Telehealth Rules Under Medicare and HIPAA
Effective March 15, 2020, certain hospitals that fail to comply with specific HIPAA Privacy Rule requirements will not be subject to HIPAA sanctions and penalties, according to a “COVID-19
Continue Reading COVID-19 Update: Limited Waiver of HIPAA Sanctions and Penalties for Certain Hospitals
If your company is a covered entity or a business associate, you face unique challenges when workforce members ask or are required to work from home. Hopefully, your company’s HIPAA
Continue Reading HIPAA and COVID-19: ABCs For Working From Home
The FAQs included in my prior post address employer response with an eye to HIPAA compliance. What else can an employer do or not do with employee information related to
Continue Reading More for Employers re: HIPAA Privacy and COVID-19
Fox Rothschild partner Bill Maruca’s article, “Protecting Privacy During an Infectious Disease Panic”, is (unfortunately) as relevant today as it was when it was posted here more than 5 years
Continue Reading FAQs on HIPAA Privacy and COVID-19
Fellow Fox Rothschild LLP Partner (and former hospital system General Counsel) Salvatore J. Russo generously contributed this post.
Some twenty-three years ago, the first well-publicized incident of the re-identification of
Continue Reading Does the HIPAA Concept of De-identification Serve to Adequately Protect the Privacy of all Personal Health Information?
As she has done for a number of years now, our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch highlighted Fox Rothschild (Fox) lawyers in her annual predictions articles in the January 2020
Continue Reading Foreshadowing HIPAA Trends for 2020