Semantics often gets in the way when it comes to HIPAA Security Rule requirements—and the results can be costly mistakes for your organization in terms of wasted resources, not to mention not satisfying OCR. It’s time for your organization to get a grip on what exact security measures it’s performing.
If your healthcare organization thinks distributing a Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP) form, ensuring patients acknowledge receiving it, and maintaining those acknowledgments is a burden, the government may agree with you.
The number of data breaches in the first quarter of 2018 marked a four-year low with a total of 685 breaches. This number is down from 1,444 breaches in the first quarter of 2017 and 1,153 in the first quarter of 2016.
Since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act was implemented in 2009, HHS' Office for Civil Rights has received a total of 347,090 reports on breaches of patient data, according to a report published by Health Information Privacy/Security Alert.
Rita Luthra, MD, a gynecologist from Longmeadow, Massachusetts, was convicted on April 30 by a federal jury of one count of violation of HIPAA and one count of obstruction of a criminal health care investigation.
