Vanta reports many organizations faced HIPAA violations this year, often from staff errors and vendor oversight, highlighting ...

December 2024 was an active month for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS"), Office for Civil Rights ("OCR"). OCR announced (i) a $1.19 million civil monetary penalty ("CMP") ...

Baycare Health System in Clearwater, Florida, will pay $800,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights to settle allegations of potential HIPAA violations. OCR ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has reached a settlement with Comprehensive Neurology, PC (Comprehensive), a New York-based ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has submitted a report (pdf) to Congress on HIPAA compliance that reveals the most common privacy compliance issue ...

Many healthcare executives fall prey to two common misconceptions about data breaches: that the only companies making headlines for lax data security are big retailers like Target and that the biggest ...

If there’s one place that is rife with sensitive personal data, it’s hospitals. It’s why the United States federal government legislated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new report from Paubox, a leader in HIPAA compliant email, reveals that Microsoft 365’s email encryption behavior could be putting healthcare organizations at serious ...

A HIPAA enforcement discretion policy that provided temporary leniency to covered healthcare providers’ use of telehealth ended Aug. 9 at 11:59 p.m. HHS’ Office for Civil Rights implemented the policy ...

A Utah gastroenterologist has agreed to pay the HHS’ Office of Civil Rights $100,000 for a corrective action plan related to a potential violation of a HIPAA security rule. Steven A. Porter, MD, came ...

Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic of North Carolina has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle charges that it might have violated the HIPAA Privacy Rule by disclosing protected ...